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Lost at Sea

The Jon Ronson Mysteries

The Jon Ronson Mysteries

By Jon Ronson

By Jon Ronson

By Jon Ronson

By Jon Ronson

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Category: Nonfiction

Category: Nonfiction

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Oct 01, 2013 | ISBN 9781594631955

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Oct 30, 2012 | ISBN 9781101612422

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    About Lost at Sea

    New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea—now with new material—reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances.

    Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to the Insane Clown Posse’s juggalo fans. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives. Among them: a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, assisted-suicide practitioners, and an Alaskan town’s Christmas-induced high school mass-murder plot. He explores all these tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, yet they are stories not about the fringe of society. They are about all of us. Incisive and hilarious, poignant and maddening, revealing and disturbing—Ronson writes about our modern world, and reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, and the chaos stirring at the edge of our daily lives.

    About Lost at Sea

    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances.

    Ronson investigates the strange things we’re willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with our loved ones’ personalities to indigo children to hypersuccessful spiritual healers to the Insane Clown Posse’s juggalo fans. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose life’s greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories—in a tour de force piece, he splits himself into multiple Ronsons (Happy, Paul, and Titch, among others) to get to the bottom of credit card companies’ predatory tactics and the murky, fabulously wealthy companies behind those tactics. Amateur nuclear physicists, assisted-suicide practitioners, the town of North Pole, Alaska’s Christmas-induced high school mass-murder plot: Ronson explores all these tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, and suddenly, mid-read, they are stories not about the fringe of society or about people far removed from our own experience, but about all of us.

    Incisive and hilarious, poignant and maddening, revealing and disturbing—Ronson writes about our modern world, the foibles of contemporary culture, and the chaos that lies at the edge of our daily lives.

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    About Jon Ronson

    Jon Ronson’s books include the New York Times bestseller The Psychopath Test and the international bestsellers Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats. The Men Who Stare at Goats was adapted as a major motion picture, released in 2009 and starring George Clooney. Ronson… More about Jon Ronson

    About Jon Ronson

    Jon Ronson’s books include the New York Times bestseller The Psychopath Test and the international bestsellers Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats. The Men Who Stare at Goats was adapted as a major motion picture, released in 2009 and starring George Clooney. Ronson… More about Jon Ronson

    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 01, 2013 | 496 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781594631955

    Category: Nonfiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Oct 30, 2012 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9781101612422

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    Praise

    “Profoundly weird…wonderfully twisted…extremely satisfying.”—Boston Globe

    “Initially, it seems that oddities are what…Jon Ronson is after. He’s actually really just trying to understand the irrational hopes and desires that drive us all.”—The Daily Beast

    “Eclectic and fascinating…Ronson treats his subjects fairly but skeptically…his view always framed by an appropriately cocked eyebrow.”—Entertainment Weekly
     
    “Absurdly entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
     
    “A sterling collection of amazing stories from an offbeat journalist at the top of his game.”—Kirkus Reviews

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