{"product_id":"9781439165768","title":"The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture","description":"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 \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":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142620135664,"sku":"9781439165768","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439165768_p0.jpg?v=1763756605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439165768","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}