The Castle
Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
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- Data prevista: 1 de set. de 2026
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- R$ 67,90
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- Encomenda
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- R$ 67,90
Descrição da editora
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed comes a darkly comic trip to the furthest reaches of the masculinity crisis
His only child is lured to a mysterious castle in the forests of New England late one night, sending Jon Ronson on an extraordinary adventure into a dark world of unmoored men desperately searching for purpose and control—whatever the cost.
With zero warning, the crisis of masculinity and its bizarre, wrecking-ball manifestations had crashed into Jon’s life. As his investigation deepens, urgent questions come to light: What exactly is “Princessing”? Why did a lawn care influencer dress as a baby in front of billions of online viewers? How did a paid-up member of the Skeptic Society derail his life in the name of a warped vision of chivalry? And, more pressingly, why are two recently released murderers on their way to pay Jon a visit?
In our rapidly changing society, many men have become detached from reality; some are behaving like separatists, while others have fallen deep down ideological rabbit holes. Is this a complete fracturing of society, a new era of disinhibition where anything goes?
Drawing on his trademark brand of humor, psychological insight, and unrivaled prescience, The Castle marks Jon Ronson’s long-awaited return to the written page in his darkest and most insightful book yet—one where he throws open the doors to the Castle and reveals a new lost generation of men.
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Journalist Ronson (So You've Been Publicly Shamed) delivers a by turns amusing and harrowing report on the desultory state of contemporary men. In 2023, Ronson's son was invited to a party at a castle in rural Connecticut, replete with "draw-bridge, gargoyles, and many... too many... spires and towers and turrets." When it turned out the party was actually a film shoot for an allegedly Netflix-produced harem-themed reality show called 101 Princesses, Ronson's son left; but Ronson later visited the castle himself to find out more about its builder and resident, Chris Mark, the scion of a steel fortune whose wealth, according to the author, has made him quixotic, irrational, scheming, and entitled. Ronson's brilliant book broadens from there, becoming not just a wry tale of "the complexities of luring women to a harem in your castle during the post-#MeToo age," but an examination of why men seem to be spiraling, by way of profiles of the worst offenders. They include family vlogger Greg Chism, whose pursuit of algorithmic success led him to make increasingly disturbing YouTube videos; British showrunner Graham Linehan, who entered a career-destroying spiral after being told a TV episode he wrote may have been transphobic; and alleged cannibal Armie Hammer, whom Ronson finds sympathy for, while nonetheless noting that the actor exhibits an inordinate affinity for meat. Ronson's intuitive but still rigorous approach makes this a blockbuster portrait of men gone mad.
