Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century [Paperback] [Aug 10, 2016] John Higgs - Softcover

John Higgs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780226578 ISBN 13: 9781780226576

Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006, 2016

Synopsis

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About the Author

JOHN HIGGS is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary and The Brandy of the Damned. He created the long-running BBC Radio quiz show X Marks the Spot and has directed more than 100 episodes of animated pre-school British TV. He was raised in North Wales and now lives in Brighton with his partner and their two children. He blogs at www.johnhiggs.com.

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Review

“An illuminating work of massive insight.... Stranger Than We Can Imagine informs us exactly where we’ve been and, by extension, where we are. I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly.”—Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta
 
“A beautiful, erudite, funny and enlightening tour of the widening boundaries of uncertainty revealed in the twentieth century.” —Robin Ince
 
“Hugely entertaining and thought-provoking.” —Scott Pack
 
“To paraphrase Colonel Kurtz, reading John Higgs is like being shot with a diamond. Suddenly everything becomes terrifyingly clear.” —Mojo
 
“In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs broadens his intellectual reach to encompass modernism, situationism, chaos theory, indeterminacy and almost every other byway of that epoch.... A fine example of learning worn lightly.” —New Scientist

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Edition details

• Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780226578
• ISBN 13: 9781780226576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326