The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity
Language: English
Published by Riverhead Books, 2008
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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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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- Title
- The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity
- Author
- Richard Todd
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594488517
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488511
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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