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“Vollman explores, sometimes sensitively, often provocatively, the emotional, psychological, and physical dimensions of poverty” (Chicago Tribune).

“Few writing today can handle writing about the underclasses of the world like Vollman . . .a writer who writes not only beautifully but also responsibly and morally.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Why are you poor?” That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered.

Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience.

“Vollman has written a book of enormous power—one that honors the magnitude of each story it records and allows them to say in their own words why life has laid them so low.” —Seattle Times

“He tells stories that need to be told, in ways that compel readers to listen.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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