false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg 45639 5 2310144 2007 Poor People total:243|5:39|4:100|3:69|2:23|1:12| 243 860 547 67 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 3 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 11:04:02 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 20 05:05:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 18:50:56 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 09:24:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 1 false Thu Oct 02 07:41:25 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 07:45:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 1 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 19 16:51:46 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 16:54:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:42:44 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:42:44 -0800 2009 William T. Vollmann is an erudite, complex writer. Most recently, he explored 20th-century authoritarianism in the National Book Award?winning Europe Central (***1/2 July/Aug 2005). Poor People raised inevitable comparisons to James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), abou...

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Poor People is an easily readable book. For those of you seeking anecdotes from po...more...]]> 2303736 0060878843 9780060878849 14 5 3.54 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2303736.Poor_People 5 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 07 10:34:56 -0800 2008 Tue May 19 19:40:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 5 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 20:22:42 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 20:36:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 3 0 false Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 18:45:23 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 07:32:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2303736 0060878843 9780060878849 14 5 3.54 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2303736.Poor_People 4 0 false Sun Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 17:24:35 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 15:38:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 3 0 false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 07 12:21:04 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 18:56:44 -0700 2008
As for the people he interviewed, how much can we trust their reporting? Vollmann by his very nature is an outsid...more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 01 16:29:04 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 22 08:12:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:11:52 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 04 13:13:35 -0800 2007
I'm a fan of William T. Vollmann, and have been since I saw the famous gun-to-the-head photo of him in the now-defunct Icon Magazine. If you aren't familiar, he's the guy that wrote that seven volume treatise on the history of violence a couple years...more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 2 0 false Thu Jun 25 15:43:56 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 15:49:03 -0700 2009 The narratives are somewhat interesting (they range from women who wear...more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 13:00:03 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 20 14:15:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 17:06:03 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 17:06:03 -0700 2009 In the end, it made me know that I am, in fact, a rich person, and...more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 2 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 18:55:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 18:55:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 3 0 false Thu Mar 20 06:18:17 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 25 08:09:14 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:33:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 4 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 27 10:39:54 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:33:18 -0800 2009
The author traveled the world asking poor people why they were poor. Their responses, along with glimpses into their lives, are the core of the book. When the book focused on the individu...more...]]> 45639 0060878827 9780060878825 222 59 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170294786m/45639.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45639.Poor_People 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 05 13:40:46 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 13:43:46 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=45639