The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

Fine condition.Macmillan,2005.First edition-2nd printing(3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Red hardback(small nick/scratch on the front cover,silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(small crease and nick on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages.291pp.Price un-clipped.

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Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Along the way Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people, and considers whether he's learned anything about himself in the course of ten years working with them. Has he manipulated the people he's interviewed, or have they manipulated him? From his Las Vegas base, Louis revisits the assorted dreamers and outlaws who have been his TV feeding ground. Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathology and 'normal' weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or 'to be yourself'? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?

Product Info

ISBN: 1405049502

ISBN-13: 9781405049504

Publisher: Macmillan

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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