ISBN10: 0802136702, ISBN13: 9780802136701, [publisher: Grove Press] Softcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

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[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]

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[Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0802136702, ISBN13: 9780802136701, [publisher: Grove Press] Softcover Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0802136702, ISBN13: 9780802136701, [publisher: Grove Press] Softcover Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0802136702, ISBN13: 9780802136701, [publisher: Grove Press, Chicago] Softcover Paperback. From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a pyrotechnic insanitarium, Mark Dory says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dory elucidates thc meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phenomena like thc Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety -- a combination of thc social and economic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and thc paranoia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through thc extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic Monthly has written, Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: thc best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes. From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to ...

Grove Press, Date: 1999-12-15. Reprint. Paperback. Used:Good. 1999. Grove Press ISBN 0802136702 9780802136701 [US]

ISBN10: 0802136702, ISBN13: 9780802136701, [publisher: Grove Press] Softcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Grove Pr 2000 Softcover New Reprint edition. 304 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.