This is also coincidentally a subject covered in the book). Reviews posted previously seem to say this book just doesn't read the room, or has a general air of ignorance or privilege and I agree-to a certain extent, where I still think this book is helpful and necessary (not that it needs to be-Biss could certainly write this book for no reason, if only personal fulfillment. I was equally hesitant and enthusiastic, and the reviews definitely seemed mixed, while the press and publisher information seemed encouraging. I really did not know what to think about this book.
If you are currently skimming the reviews to determine whether to read I have a review for you. It is no accident that Having and Being Had reads like the poems money would write if money wrote poems.' And a wry, vivd assessment of our spiritual moment. 'A meditation on race, consumerism and the American caste system. 'No contemporary writer I know explores and confronts her own societal responsibilities better than Eula Biss.' A brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us.' 'Eula Biss's prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn't know I felt. Biss' sentences have retained a poet's precision.' 'Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.' if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading On Having and Being Had, you have no conscience.' In Having and Being Had, both gifts are on display. Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight.
'As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts.
Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyonc� to Pok�mon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, 'In what have we invested? The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism.
Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSONĪ personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the N ew York Times bestselling author.
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