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Item Details
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REMOTE
REFLECTIONS ON LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF CELEBRITY |
| By: |
David Shields, Phillip Lopate (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£15.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299193640 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299193645 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 September, 2003 |
| Pages: |
180 |
| Description: |
Here, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him. |
| Synopsis: |
In this truly one-of-a-kind book, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him. Through dazzling sleight of hand in which the public becomes private and the private becomes public, the entire book - clicking from confession to family-album photograph to family chronicle to sexual fantasy to pseudo-scholarly footnote to reportage to personal essay to stand-up comedy to cultural criticism to literary criticism to film criticism to prose-poem to litany to outtake - becomes both an anatomy of American culture and a searing self-portrait. David Shields reads his own life - reads our life - as if it were an allegory about remoteness and finds persuasive, hilarious, heartbreaking evidence wherever he goes. |
| Illustrations: |
57 b&w photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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