| ISBN |
9781509893287 (paperback) |
| Author |
Theroux, Louis author. |
| Title |
The call of the weird : an American road trip with Neo-Nazis, porn stars and one (alleged) space alien / Louis Theroux. |
| Edition |
Updated edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Pan Books, 2018. |
| ©2005. |
| Pagination etc. |
298 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
First published: London : Macmillian, 2005. |
| Summary Note |
For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them. Attempting to understand a little about himself and the workings of his own mind, Louis considers questions such as: What is the difference between pathology and "normal" weirdness? Is there something particularly weird about Americans? What does it mean to be weird, or "to be yourself"? And do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us? |
| Subject - Name |
Theroux, Louis -- Travel -- United States |
| Subject |
Subculture -- United States |
| Social movements -- United States |
| Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States |
| National characteristics, American |
| United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- |
| United States -- Civilization -- 1970- |
| Shelf Location |
306.10973 THER |
