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01957cam a2200313 a 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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801441317 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20121120114751.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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120913r20132012nyu 000 0 eng |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2012034797 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781594631955 (paperback) |
| SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)801441317 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
YDX |
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YDXCP |
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BDX |
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OCLCO |
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JP3 |
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BWX |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
HM646 |
| Item number |
.R66 2012 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306/.1 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Ronson, Jon, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Lost at sea : |
| Remainder of title |
the Jon Ronson mysteries / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Jon Ronson. |
| EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Riverhead trade paperback edition. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Riverhead Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2013, c2012. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
481 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories. In a tour de force piece, he splits himself into multiple Ronsons (Happy, Paul, and Titch, among others) to get to the bottom of predatory tactics of credit card companies and the murky, fabulously wealthy companies behind those tactics. Amateur nuclear physicists, assisted-suicide practitioners, the town of North Pole, a Christmas-induced high school mass-murder plot: Ronson explores all these tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, and suddenly, mid-read, they are stories not about the fringe of society or about people far removed from our own experience, but about all of us. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Subculture. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Counterculture. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Eccentrics and eccentricities. |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
306 RON |
| c |
314 |
