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Money changes everything : twenty-two writers tackle the last taboo with tales of sudden windfalls, staggering debts, and other surprising turns of fortune / edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell.

1st ed.

New York : Doubleday, ©2007.

xxii, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Various notable writers candidly assess the complex role of money in their lives and in their personal relationships, in a collection that features contributions by Daniel Handler, Susan Choi, and Jonathan Dee.

Money -- United States -- Fiction.

Money in literature.

Money -- Psychological aspects.

Fiction.

Offill, Jenny, 1968-

Schappell, Elissa.

Includes bibliographical references.

The guy next door / Henry Alford -- Noveau poor / Ruth Konigsberg -- My inheritance / Meera Nair -- Safe / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Desperate creatures / Felicia Sullivan -- A dollar a tear / Marian Fontana -- Porn bought my football / Chris Offut -- Treasure me / Walter Kirn -- The American dream / Isabel Rose -- For richer / Fred Leebron -- For poorer / Kathryn Rhett -- Wining / Daniel Handler -- Dirty work / Lydia Millet -- On selling drugs, badly / Brett Martin -- What this cost me / Susan Choi -- My vow of poverty / Tony Serra -- Notes on bling / Steve Rinehart -- Mad money / Andy Behrman -- This way out / Jill McCorkle -- Stash / Claire Dededer -- The perilous dune / Jeanne McCullough -- Pre-existing condition / Jonathan Dee.

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2006016845

9780385516693

038551669X

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