Description
| Product ID: | 9781509880416 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Theroux The Keyhole |
| Subtitle: | Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker |
| Authors: | Author: Louis Theroux |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Documentary films, Documentary films, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Diaries, letters and journals, Memoirs, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux. <p><b>Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of <i>Gotta Get Theroux This</i> finds himself in unexpected danger . . . </b><br><br>Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic.<br><br><i>Theroux the Keyhole</i> is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in Covid World. A wife intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’ daily workouts. Two teenage sons, inseparable from their videogames, for whom he is increasingly 'cringe'. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family. <br><br>Louis also describes how he launches his podcast, <i>Grounded</i>, finally gets to the US to film a new Joe Exotic documentary and aims his sights on the latest incarnation of the far right in a world becoming radicalized by social media. <i>Theroux the Keyhole</i> is Louis at his insightful best, as he faces unforeseen new challenges and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-11-11 |