Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263).
Contents
Barneys, Bergdorf's, Bloomingdale's -- Oniomania and me -- Charged up -- Welcome to the nineties -- Material world -- Fashions of the times -- The price of everything, the value of nothing -- Madame Bovary syndrome -- Start where you left off-- do not avoid the difficult parts -- Better to shop than pray -- The dirty little secrets -- Loss and lost -- That crocodile died a long time ago -- After the fall -- Epilogue.
Summary
"Spent" is Avis Cardella's timely, deeply personal and shockingly dramatic exploration of our cultural need to spend, and of what happens when someone like herself is consumed by the desire to consume.