Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away

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 makes these spectacles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374150338
• ISBN13: 9780374150334
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.6"