{"product_id":"9781416556213","title":"The Big Rewind","description":"Author: Nathan Rabin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781416556213\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2010\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence.\u003c\/b\u003e As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for \u003ci\u003eA.V. Club \u003c\/i\u003efor 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rewind\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rewind \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n With comic dissertations on everything from \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby, \u003c\/i\u003eand from \u003ci\u003eGrey Gardens \u003c\/i\u003eto Dr. Dre, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rewind \u003c\/i\u003echronicles Rabin’s improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46915625681054,"sku":"HPC-9781416556213","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781416556213.jpg?v=1780036939","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781416556213","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}