Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

by Eric G. Wilson

Book Overview

Why can't we look away?

Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374533709
• ISBN13: 9780374533700
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"