{"product_id":"big-rewind-nathan-rabin-9781416556213","title":"Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture","description":"\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathan Rabin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1416556214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416556213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2010 pg. 20","brand":"Nathan Rabin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123473969407,"sku":"9781416556213","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcdbd5ce-46cd-495f-becb-e1c7d1522da1.jpg?v=1687431094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/big-rewind-nathan-rabin-9781416556213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}