Poor People

BY WILLIAM VOLLMAN

Brief Description:
Award winning novelist William Vollman travelled the world meeting the poor and asking them "why are you poor?" then allowing them to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own words. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the amazing power they need to use just to survive. Includes 128 pages of photographs by the author.

Harper Perennial 2008 464 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)