Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping

Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping by Jill Foulston


ISBN
9781844082759
Published
Released
03 / 12 / 2007
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Dimensions
135 x 216mm

Some of us adore it, some of us live for it, some of us loathe it - but we all do it. SHOP. This is a book to celebrate the passion and the fear. Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Joan Didion bought nail enamel and a toaster on impulse. Karyn Bosnak charged $20,000 on credit cards, and Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught shoplifting. George Eliot, for some reason, hated shopping. As people began to shop more, novelists imagined them doing it. Jane Eyre cringes at Mr Rochester's pre-wedding excess, while Undine Spragg's spending drives her husband to despair. The Girl with a Pearl Earring turns up her nose at some stale meat, Tom Ripley lusts after Venetian leather, and Mrs Dalloway chooses flowers on Bond Street. The darker side of shopping is here in the letters, diaries and memoirs of those who remember blackmarkets and rations. There are even records from the Old Bailey of audacious and desperate five-finger discounts, and a recent account of brawling at IKEA. THE VIRAGO BOOK OF THE JOY OF SHOPPING revels in the lists, the etiquette and the thrills of finding just the right thing. This is it. Buy it.
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