About this item
Shoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they appeal to what we want to believe: that there's an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we're inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. Reality bites, after all, and becoming disillusioned is a downer.In his new book Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories or we're so saturated by society's conventions that we're always acting out prefab scripts, we can't help but be phony.
About the Author
"Thriller aficionados should welcome this debut."
--Publishers Weekly
"A fast-paced page turner with contemporary, likable characters."
--Library Journal
"Wilson is set to leave his mark on the world of fiction."
-- Ted Dekker, NY Times bestselling author
Eric Wilson has been married for over twenty years. He is the father of two grown daughters, and is a grandfather. He has traveled in over forty countries. Eric is the author of fifteen published works that range from contemporary fiction to supernatural suspense, and is at work on nonfiction projects as well:
1. Taming the Beast: the Untold Story of Team Tyson
2. Alice Goes the Way of the Maya (novella)
3. October Baby
4. Amelia's Last Secret (novella)
5. Two Seconds Late
6. One Step Away
7. Valley of Bones
8. Haunt of Jackals
9. Field of Blood
10. Fireproof
11. Facing the Giants
12. Flywheel
13. A Shred of Truth
14. The Best of Evil
15. Expiration Date
16. Dark to Mortal Eyes
