A01=Tobias Jones
Author_Tobias Jones
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Religion
Travelogue
Utopia
Product details
- ISBN 9780571223817
- Weight: 195g
- Dimensions: 125 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Utopian Dreams offers one writer's 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, to find belonging and companionship with others who share your sadness, or even, perhaps, your happiness? With his wife and baby in tow, Jones spends a year with spritualists, time-travellers, reformed drug addicts and Quakers, producing a fascinating exploration of the meaning of community.
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. Since the publication of The Dark Heart of Italy he has written and presented two TV series for Rai 3: Ricchi d'Italia and Cervelli d'Italia.
