Author: NATHAN RABIN
Title: The Big Rewind
Description: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 342. From the head writer at The Onion A.V. Club, a painfully funny memoir as seen through the sturdy prism of pop culture"for fans of Chuck Klosterman and Augusten Burroughs. As a child and teenager, Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape. As an adult, pop culture became his life. For more than a decade he`s served as head writer for The Onion A.V. Club, and here, by way of music, books, films, and television, he shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story.Using a specific book, song, album, film, or television show as a springboard to discuss a period in his life, Rabin recounts his Dickensian upbringing with biting wit and brutal, perhaps unwise candor. Throughout a traumatic childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, Rabin reveals that not only did pop culture shape and mold him, it helped save him from suicidal depression, institu- tionalization, and parental abandonment. Perhaps the most entertaining book ever written about depression and sweet, sweet sexual humiliation, The Big Rewind is also an emotional tale of a motherless child`s search for family and acceptance and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin`s irascible, lovable, hard-luck dad.Featuring unexpected cameos by Billy Bob Thornton, a vomiting Topher Grace, and some dude named Barack Obama, The Big Rewind chronicles the surreal journey of Rabin`s life, and its intersection with the dizzying, maddening, wonderful world of entertainment. ISBN: 9781416556206. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781416556206
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Title: The Big Rewind
Description: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 342. From the head writer at The Onion A.V. Club, a painfully funny memoir as seen through the sturdy prism of pop culture"for fans of Chuck Klosterman and Augusten Burroughs. As a child and teenager, Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape. As an adult, pop culture became his life. For more than a decade he`s served as head writer for The Onion A.V. Club, and here, by way of music, books, films, and television, he shares his too-strange-for-fiction life story.Using a specific book, song, album, film, or television show as a springboard to discuss a period in his life, Rabin recounts his Dickensian upbringing with biting wit and brutal, perhaps unwise candor. Throughout a traumatic childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, Rabin reveals that not only did pop culture shape and mold him, it helped save him from suicidal depression, institu- tionalization, and parental abandonment. Perhaps the most entertaining book ever written about depression and sweet, sweet sexual humiliation, The Big Rewind is also an emotional tale of a motherless child`s search for family and acceptance and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin`s irascible, lovable, hard-luck dad.Featuring unexpected cameos by Billy Bob Thornton, a vomiting Topher Grace, and some dude named Barack Obama, The Big Rewind chronicles the surreal journey of Rabin`s life, and its intersection with the dizzying, maddening, wonderful world of entertainment. ISBN: 9781416556206. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781416556206
Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1733202
- Book number: 1733202
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