Isbn: 9781594488511 - the Thing Itself: on the Search for Authenticity (20 results)

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Hardback. Condition: Very 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.…

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.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. 253pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. "For some time, Richard Todd has been haunted by a sense of the unreality of contemporary life--the suspicion that much of what we do, what we say, what we buy, and even what we feel, is false. In THE THING ITSELF, he examines his--and our--hunger for authenticity: authenticity in objects and places, in politics and ideas, and most important, in ourselves. [] THE THING ITSELF is cultural criticism with a difference. The author knows full well that he is a member in good standing of the culture he criticizes. Todd casts a gimlet-eyed gaze on a world where everything--from refrigerators to adventure safaris to presidential candidates--claims to be the 'real thing.' And he looks with equal skepticism on his own follies and illusions as a citizen of that world, himself longing for the elusive prize of authenticity. [] In prose as tightly joined as the two-hundred-year-old house he lives in, Todd has written a reflective chronicle of one man's effort to understand a seemingly universal modern longing: to be a real person in a real world. By turns lyrical and comic, challenging and comforting, THE THING ITSELF is a surprising book full of deeply human truths." [jacket copy] "This book--provocative, funny, poignant, marvelously insightful, sometimes acerbic but mostly gentle--offers a guided tour through the uncertain landscape of real and fake, authentic and phony. It's both delightful and eye-opening."--Jonathan Harr. "This is a great book, a great American book, and its spirit is a democratic one. You will be very glad for the company of Richard Todd. THE THING ITSELF achieves something extremely rare--the expansiveness that only intimate, intellectual reckoning allows, told in a voice whose muscularity expresses itself in grace. Imagine! A book on authenticity and America whose deep searching sets the need for answers aside."--Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a handsome & bright-as-new jacket.…

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