- Eccentrics and eccentricities, Subculture, Counterculture, New York Times bestseller
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers.
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Contemporary, spare, meticulous and relentless.
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- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Jon Ronson
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 471
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Picador
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781447223900
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