{"product_id":"9780299193638","title":"Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e     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.\u003cbr\u003e     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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN \/ Revson Award?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179149705456,"sku":"9780299193638","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299193638_p0.jpg?v=1763683323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299193638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}