Kate Summerscale

Gebundenes Buch

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession

Beschreibung

"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)."--

Autor

Kate Summerscale, formerly the literary editor of the Daily Telegraph (London), is the author of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, a number one bestseller in the UK, which was translated into more than a dozen languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her first book, The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was short-listed for the Whitbread Biography Award, The Wicked Boy won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and The Haunting of Alma Fielding was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Summerscale lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780593489758
• ISBN-10: 0593489756
• Artikelnr.: 63332556