Description
| Product ID: | 9780330448321 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Out of the Ordinary |
| Subtitle: | True Tales of Everyday Craziness |
| Authors: | Author: Jon Ronson |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Humour, Humour |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Journalist Jon Ronson investigates all manner of lunacy, which somehow make perfect sense. <p><b><i>Out of the Ordinary</i> is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty – not least his own.</b><br><br>Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In <i>Out of the Ordinary</i>, a collection of his journalism from the <i>Guardian</i>, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense – mainstream, domestic, ordinary insanity. <br><br>Whether he finds himself promising his son that he will be at his side for ever, dressed in a Santa costume, or trying to understand why hundreds of apparently normal people would suddenly start speaking in tongues in a Scout hut in Kidderminster, he demonstrates repeatedly how we all succumb to deeply irrational beliefs that grow to inform our everyday existence.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-11-06 |
