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Author Cardella, Avis.

Title Spent : memoirs of a shopping addict / Avis Cardella.

Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B CARDELLA, AVIS    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B CARDELLA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  616.8584 CARDELLA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 263 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Cardella, Avis.
Compulsive shopping -- United States -- Case studies.
Addicts -- United States -- Biography.
Shopping -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Shopping -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN 9780316035606
0316035602
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