
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
**You've seen the hit Netflix drama, Adolescence. Now read the book that explains it.**
'So compelling'
Financial Times
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An astonishing undercover investigation into the paranoid and misogynistic
subcultures of the manosphere, by the Orwell Prize-longlisted author of
Hired.
Rarely has there seemed a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, collectively known as the 'manosphere', as men search for new forms of belonging.
In
Lost Boys, acclaimed journalist James Bloodworth delves into these worlds and asks: what does their emergence say about Western society? Why are so many men susceptible to the sinister beliefs these groups promote? And what can we do about their pernicious encroachment upon our social and political spheres? Along the way, he enlists in a bootcamp for 'alpha males', dissects cultural figures including Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate, and accompanies modern day Hugh Hefners as they broadcast their jet-set lifestyles to millions of followers.
Combining compulsive memoir with powerful reporting,
Lost Boys is an essential guide to the contradictions in contemporary masculinity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Part One: The Blue Pill
- Part Two: The Red Pill
- Part Three: The Black Pill
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes