Big Rewind - by Nathan Rabin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence.</b> As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for <i>A.V. Club </i>for more than a decade, Rabin uses specific books, songs, albums, films, and television shows as springboards for dissecting his Dickensian life story in his acclaimed memoir <i>The Big Rewind</i>. <p/>Rabin writes movingly and hilariously about how pop culture helped save him from suicidal despair, institutionalization, and parental abandonment during a childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents. A fun book about depression, <i>The Big Rewind </i>is ultimately a touching narrative of a motherless child's search for family and acceptance, and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin's lovable, hard-luck dad. <p/>With comic dissertations on everything from <i>The Simpsons </i>to <i>The Great Gatsby, </i>and from <i>Grey Gardens </i>to Dr. Dre, <i>The Big Rewind </i>chronicles Rabin's improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[The Big Rewind is] written with [Rabin's] trademark humor, quirkiness and self-deprecation. It's an homage to pop culture. --<i>USA Today</i><br><br>"Nathan Rabin had the kind of childhood that aspiring memoirists dream of." --<i>TimeOut New York</i><br><br>"With his uncanny grasp of cultural zeitgeist, Rabin could unseat Chuck Klosterman as the slacker generation's vital critical voice." --<i>Heeb Magazine</i><br>
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