Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
作者：Matthew Desmond
平装：422 pages
规格： 132 x 203 x 28mm | 318g
出版日期： 07 Mar 2017
出版社： BROADWAY BOOKS
语言： English
ISBN10 0553447459
ISBN13 9780553447453
WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
2017年普利策奖非虚构类获奖作品
内容简介
In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenching and revelatory" (The Nation), "vivid and unsettling" (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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"Astonishing... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"After reading Evicted, you'll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing.... The book is that good, and it's that unignorable."--Jennifer Senior, New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2016
"This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read... It is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable."--Bill Gates
"My God, what [Evicted] lays bare about American poverty. It is devastating and infuriating and a necessary read."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women
"Written with the vividness of a novel, [Evicted] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America's obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model."--Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times
"In spare and penetrating prose... Desmond has made it impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close."--Carlos Lozada, Washington Post
"An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban America."--Geoff Dyer, The Guardian's Best Holiday Reads 2016
"It doesn't happen every week (or every month, or even year), but every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national conversation... Evicted looks to be one of those books." --Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review
"Should be required reading in an election year, or any other."--Entertainment Weekly
"Powerful, monstrously effective... the power of this book abides in the indelible impression left by its stories."--Jill Leovy, The American Scholar
"Gripping and important...[Desmond's] portraits are vivid and unsettling.--Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books
"An exquisitely crafted, meticulously researched exploration of life on the margins, providing a voice to people who have been shamefully ignored--or, worse, demonized--by opinion makers over the course of decades." --The Boston Globe
"[An] impressive work of scholarship.... As Mr. Desmond points out, eviction has been neglected by urban sociologists, so his account fills a gap. His methodology is scrupulous."--Wall Street Journal
作者介绍
Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Justice and Poverty Project. The author of several books, including the award-winning book, "On the Fireline," and "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," Desmond was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant in 2015 for his work on poverty in America.
