{"product_id":"sex-and-the-unreal-city-anthony-esolen-9781621643067","title":"Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnreal City: a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it's no fantasy. It's where we live. We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in \u003ci\u003eun-being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western world--through king-size bookstores, manicured college campuses, strobe-lit choir lofts, mechanized farms, divorce courts, drag-queen libraries, and beyond. This hilarious guide to a culture gone mad with sex and self-care minces no words and spares no egos. We the people of Unreal City are no better, and certainly no smarter, than our fathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut fear not. \u003ci\u003eSex and the Unreal City\u003c\/i\u003e insists there's no need to settle down in the ninth circle of unreality. Esolen lights a torch and heads up the well-trod path back to our cleaner, kinder, truer homeland: earth. Along the way, the author sings the songs of masters somehow long forgotten--Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, the evangelists--and asks us to chant along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of essayists like George Weigel, George Rutler, Malcom Muggeridge, and Walker Percy will enjoy this rollicking, intelligent book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Esolen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621643069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621643067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ignatius Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Anthony Esolen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051270205695,"sku":"9781621643067","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bde2dca5-9110-4da6-aa31-8264c04a3a4a.jpg?v=1685012093","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-and-the-unreal-city-anthony-esolen-9781621643067","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}