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Utopian Dreams
Utopian Dreams
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Published:
11 January, 2007
hardback
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This is a travel book, an account of the year Tobias Jones spent living in communes and amongst unusual dreamers. It is his attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression is it possible to be idealistic, find belonging and companionship? Are there really groups that transcend the opposites of individualism and community, where you can be truly yourself but also part of something else? With his wife and baby daughter in tow, Jones visits unusual orphanages, retirement villages, detox co-operatives and old-fashioned farmyards, and spends time with spiritualists, time travellers, reformed drug addicts and Quakers. He encounters wildly different communities, some more harmonious than others, which lead him to ask the deeply unfashionable question: do groups that place faith at their centre work better than those that don't?
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571223800 |
| ISBN10 | 057122380X |
| Number Of Pages | 224 |
| Item Weight | 322 g |
| Product Dimensions | 136 x 28 x 214 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
Tobias Jones studied at Jesus College, Oxford. He was on the staff of the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday before moving to Parma in 1999. His first book, The Dark Heart of Italy, was published to great acclaim in 2003.