{"product_id":"the-castle-9780241753552","title":"The Castle","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jon Ronson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Topic - Men, Women \u0026amp; Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Castle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a dogged feat of investigation from one of our greatest non-fiction storytellers' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLONDON FALLING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe million-copy bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Psychopath Test\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e returns with a shocking, darkly comic trip to the furthest reaches of the masculinity crisis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eI honestly have no clue what is going on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis is very weird.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe left. Was completely fucked. All good now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jon Ronson received a series of disquieting texts from his son Joel who’d been lured to a mysterious castle in the forests of New England late one night, it sets Ronson Sr. off on an adventure into an underworld of unmoored and disaffected men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Jon deepens his investigation into the castle and the wider ‘man crisis’ – where some are feeling tossed around in a sea of conflicting ideologies of what it means to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a man – urgent questions come to light. What exactly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Princessing’? Why did a lawn care influencer dress as a baby in front of billions of online viewers, with catastrophic results? And more pressingly, why are two recently released murderers on their way to pay Jon a visit?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the death of utopian factory towns to the false promise of YouTube influencer culture, Jon shows us our rapidly changing world like never before, and the men caught in the middle. A world drained of purpose, of collapsing institutions, where a new era of disinhibited behaviour has taken hold of our online and real-world selves. And as the castle mystery twists and turns into a cat-and-mouse story, will Jon be able to discover its terrifying secret hidden from the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE CASTLE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarks Jon Ronson’s triumphant return to the written page. Utterly hilarious and criminally entertaining, this is one of our greatest non-fiction writers at the top of his game: diagnosing our societal frailties in a narrative of blistering pace, insight and intensity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Ridiculously compelling and wonderfully weird . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Castle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is vintage Ronson: wise, timely and extremely funny' LOUIS THEROUX\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48103684472983,"sku":"9780241753552","price":999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241753552.webp?v=1786008525","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-castle-9780241753552","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}