{"product_id":"9781416556213","title":"The Big Rewind : A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Big Rewind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nathan Rabin\u003c\/b\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003eRabin 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\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“[The Big Rewind is] written with [Rabin’s] trademark humor, quirkiness and self-deprecation. It’s an homage to pop culture.\" —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nathan Rabin had the kind of childhood that aspiring memoirists dream of.” —\u003ci\u003eTimeOut New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With his uncanny grasp of cultural zeitgeist, Rabin could unseat Chuck Klosterman as the slacker generation’s vital critical voice.” —\u003ci\u003eHeeb Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781416556213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40591155331278,"sku":"9781416556213","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_b4281231-d649-4d64-9acd-404a63aa2184.jpg?v=1637749007","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781416556213","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}