Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Desmond, Matthew

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9781432843137: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

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ISBN 10: 1432843133 ISBN 13: 9781432843137

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2017

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Originally published: New York: Broadway Books, [2016]

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Review:

"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

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist
Winner of the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Winner of the 800-CEO-READ Book Award -- Current Events & Public Affairs
Winner of the American Bar Association's 2017 Silver Gavel Award
One of The Los Angeles Times' 10 Most Important Books of 2016
A New York Times Editors' Choice
One of Wall Street Journal's Hottest Spring Nonfiction Books
One of O: The Oprah Magazine's 10 Titles to Pick Up Now
One of Vulture's 8 Books You Need to Read This Month
One of BuzzFeed's 14 Most Buzzed About Books of 2016
One of The Guardian's Best Holiday Reads 2016

From the Back Cover:

'Monumental and vivid ... Matthew Desmond spent years living among tenants in trailer parks and tumbledown houses in Milwaukee. His narrative weaves together the stories of a handful of characters struggling, and often failing, to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted demands attention' Ed Caesar, Sunday Times

'The most powerful book I read this year' Rosamund Urwin, Evening Standard, Books of the Year

'Its characters are rendered in such high-resolution detail that their ghost images linger if you shut your eyes' Jennifer Senior, The New York Times

'A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter' Owen Jones

'I can't remember when a study so deepened my understanding of American life' Katha Pollitt, Guardian

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