- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780241972694
- Length: 272 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
- Weight: 238g
- Price: £10.99
The News
A User's Manual
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Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton examines a number of archetypal news stories - a plane crash, a murder, a political scandal, a celebrity interview - from a fresh perspective to ask intriguing questions: why do disaster stories titillate? why obsess over love lives of the famous? why smile when a politician falls from grace? In so doing, he brings clear sight and understanding to a force which, above all others, informs our view of reality.
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- Paperback 2015
- Ebook 2014