Faith In Fakes
  • Published: 1 August 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749396282
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $39.99

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‘There is enough liveliness here, and enough imaginative suggestiveness, to keep the reader furiously entertained’ - Sunday Times

Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
  • Published: 1 August 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749396282
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $39.99
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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

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Also by Umberto Eco

On the Shoulders of Giants
How to Spot a Fascist
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
How to Write a Thesis
The Prague Cemetery
The Name Of The Rose
This is Not the End of the Book
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Praise for Faith In Fakes

In the age of innumerable populist polymaths, Eco is the exception, a commentator who makes sense of what so often seems senseless. All the more reason to read him

Time Out

That he can write with equal agility on such subjects as the World Cup, St Thomas Aquinas, and how the wearing of tight blue jeans constricts the interior life as well as the body...in a a style that is both serious and diverting, is an achievement unparalleled in British journalism

New Statesman

There is enough liveliness here, and enough imaginative suggestiveness, to keep the reader furiously entertained

Sunday Times

A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our time

Los Angeles Times

Eco is...a highly entertaining and perceptive "decoder" of the world

Times Literary Supplement