{"product_id":"lost-at-sea-the-jon-ronson-mysteries","title":"Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJon Ronson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781594631375\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRiverhead Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Volumes: \u003c\/b\u003e2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e416\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"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. \u003cbr\u003eRonson 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. \u003cbr\u003eIncisive 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.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries | Jon Ronson | Hardcover | 9781594631375 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1757210","offer_id":49149195550872,"sku":"1757210","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries | Jon Ronson | Hardcover | 9781594631375 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1766027","offer_id":49376381042840,"sku":"1766027","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81vaO-SBjHL.jpg?v=1779525329","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/lost-at-sea-the-jon-ronson-mysteries","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}