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Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune
Doubleday
January 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 038551669X
EAN: 9780385516693
Hardcover
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The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new
anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s
friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a
distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this
riveting anthology, a host of celebrated writers explore the
complicated role money has played in their lives, whether
they’re hiding from creditors or hiding a trust fund. This
collection will touch a nerve with anyone who’s ever been
afraid to reveal their bank balance. In these wide-ranging personal essays, Daniel Handler,
Walter Kirn, Jill McCorkle, Meera Nair, Henry Alford, Susan
Choi, and other acclaimed authors write with startling
candor about how money has strengthened or undermined their
closest relationships. Isabel Rose talks about the trials
and tribulations of dating as an heiress. Tony Serra
explains what led him to take a forty-year vow of poverty.
September 11 widow Marian Fontana illuminates the heartbreak
and moral complexities of victim compensation. Jonathan Dee
reveals the debt that nearly did him in. And in paired
essays, Fred Leebron and his wife Katherine Rhett discuss
the way fights over money have shaken their marriage to the
core again and again. We talk openly about our romantic disasters and family
dramas, our problems at work and our battles with addiction.
But when it comes to what is or is not in our wallets, we
remain determinedly mum. Until now, that is. Money Changes
Everything is the first anthology of its kind—an unflinching
and on-the-record collection of essays filled with
entertaining and enlightening insights into why we spend,
save, and steal. The pieces in Money Changes Everything range from the comic
to the harrowing, yet they all reveal the complex,
emotionally charged role money plays in our lives by
shattering the wall of silence that has long surrounded this
topic.
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