{"product_id":"big-rewind","title":"Big Rewind","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. \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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57296767549784,"sku":"9781416556213","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781416556213.jpg?v=1778831133","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/big-rewind","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}