After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the sense of performance being filmed inevitably brings. It would allow him to get closer to people, to discover what really motivated them and what had happened to the assorted dreamers, outlaws and eccentrics since he last saw them.
On a journey that took him from the porn sets of Los Angeles to the gangsta rappers of Memphis, from a convention of UFO contactees in Arizona to Northern Idaho for a festive get-together of neo-Nazis, he asked what 'weird people' have to tell us about our own secret natures. Had he learned anything about himself by being among them? Do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us?
Louis Theroux's first book is a hilarious, thought-provoking and at times surreal voyage into the heart of weirdness.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509893287
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 216 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 mm
Crammed with original insights - Guardian
What Theroux actually shows us in this exhilarating read is that the barmy and bizarre are still very much alive and kicking - Sunday Express
Compelling reading - FT Magazine
'The original guru of American psychosis.' -- Times - The Times
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