# The World Is What It Is

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- Book: [The World Is What It Is](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french/the-world-is-what-it-is) ([The World Is What It Is.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french/the-world-is-what-it-is.md))
- Authors: [Patrick French](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-french)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-03-3044-009-7
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2009-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction