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How to Cause a Scandal

Adventures in Bad Behaviour

How to Cause a Scandal( )
Author: Kipnis, Laura
ISBN:978-1-921753-41-1
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:Scribe Publications
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $21.99
Book Description:

We all relish a good scandal -- the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars), the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnation while savouring every lurid detail?

With 'pointed daggers of prose' (The New Yorker), Laura Kipnis examines contemporary downfall sagas to lay bare our psyche: what we desire,...
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Pages:224



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