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Synopsis
In an intimate literary memoir, the author describes his personal quest for authenticity that attempts to identify what is true in himself and the world around him, focusing on a series of exchanges with people, places, ideas, and objects to reveal what these interactions reveal about life and their role in the quest for meaning in his own and others' lives. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Richard Todd has spent many years as a magazine and book editor at The Atlantic Monthly, The New England Monthly, Worth, Civilization, and Houghton Mifflin, and he now works independently as a consultant. He has written scores of articles on a wide range of cultural themes for Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. He is a professor at Goucher College.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one man's search for the elusive gift of authenticity. Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what we experience is false. In this unique pursuit of the genuine, Todd examines his search for authenticity in places and objects, in politics and ideas, and in ourselves, and recounts his efforts to understand the desire to be a real person in a real world. Seller Inventory # 00101046308
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