Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life

By David Boyle

David Boyle guides us through the next big thing in Western living - the determined rejection of the fake, the virtual, the spun and the mass-produced, in the search for authenticity. The charms of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007179642
• ISBN13: 9780007179640
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Better than The World is Flat.

Makes you realize the artificiality of our existence today. Full of interesting anecdotes, and pithy quotes of great philosophers, theologians, economists. How this book can be so ignored while such a trifle like *The Tipping Point* can be so successful is shocking. It's probably because of its dreadful generic cover and funky title. Too bad; this book will get your mind racing!