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The Call of the Weird

Paperback • 2006 • English

The Call of the Weird

By Louis Theroux

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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. Along the way Louis thinks about what drives him to spend so much time among weird people, and considers whether he's learned anything about himself in the course of ten yea...Show more

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ISBN

9780330435703

Publisher

Pan Books

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Call of the Weird

Format

Paperback

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