Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarah Crichton BooksISBN-13:9780374536121ISBN-10:374536120UPC:9780374536121Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:American, Popular Culture, CriticismSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC45SC0WP9
Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life
We love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we're inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. This is frontier forthrightness gone dreamy: reality bites, after...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarah Crichton BooksISBN-13:9780374536121ISBN-10:374536120UPC:9780374536121Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:American, Popular Culture, CriticismSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC45SC0WP9
Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away, Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace, and five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.
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