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Money frees serfs, enfranchises women, and makes liberty possible. It
鈥渇reezes鈥� desire, abstracting it, putting it into motion. But its very
abstraction鈥攖he way trust in money substitutes for trust in
people鈥攈as allowed money to subsume all other systems of value. James
Buchan鈥檚 historical and literary inquiry into money is also a long goodbye to
the obsolete virtues of politics, civics and aesthetics. Frozen Desire reads
like Patrick Leigh Fermor writing in the grip of a Cassandra complex鈥�
compassionate, elegaic, and full of local colour. Published by Picador,
拢17.99, ISBN 0330355279.