The Big Rewind

A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book The Big Rewind by Nathan Rabin, Scribner
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nathan Rabin ISBN: 9781439165768
Publisher: Scribner Publication: July 7, 2009
Imprint: Scribner Language: English
Author: Nathan Rabin
ISBN: 9781439165768
Publisher: Scribner
Publication: July 7, 2009
Imprint: Scribner
Language: English

Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for A.V. Club 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 The Big Rewind.

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, The Big Rewind 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.

With comic dissertations on everything from The Simpsons to The Great Gatsby, and from Grey Gardens to Dr. Dre, The Big Rewind chronicles Rabin’s improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Nathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for A.V. Club 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 The Big Rewind.

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, The Big Rewind 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.

With comic dissertations on everything from The Simpsons to The Great Gatsby, and from Grey Gardens to Dr. Dre, The Big Rewind chronicles Rabin’s improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.

More books from Scribner

Cover of the book Death of an Old Goat by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Feast Your Eyes by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Your Own True Colors by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Look Homeward, Angel by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Over the Edge by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book The Dark Tower III by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Next Year, for Sure by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book To Kill The Pope by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Playing Against the House by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book The Newcomers by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Saddam's Bombmaker by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book The End of the Pier by Nathan Rabin
Cover of the book Rapture Ready! by Nathan Rabin
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy