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REMOTE: REFLECTIONS ON LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF CELEBRITY By David Shields **Mint**
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN-10
- 0299193640
- Publication Name
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Type
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780299193645
- Book Title
- Remote : Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Media Studies, General, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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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. Winner of the PEN / Revson Award? "
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299193640
ISBN-13
9780299193645
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2519083
Product Key Features
Book Title
Remote : Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Media Studies, General, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.H4834z476
Reviews
"The talented Mr. Shields gives us a clever collection of vignettes, descriptions, commentaries, and aper us held together by the author's voice and a finely tuned sense of the absurd. . . . Remote is elliptical, funny, and ironic."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, "In the current craze of personal and family memoirs, David Shields's Remote is unique. It's a mishmash, a potpourri; it's impersonal, it's embarrassingly revealing. It's very funny, and it tells us more than we want to know about American life."-Carolyn See, Washington Post, "An idiosyncratic, droll, ravishing assemblage that both investigates and replicates the fragmented, irony-poisoned, celebrity-obsessed consciousness of fin de siècle America."-- Kirkus Reviews, "In the current craze of personal and family memoirs, David Shields's Remote is unique. It's a mishmash, a potpourri; it's impersonal, it's embarrassingly revealing. It's very funny, and it tells us more than we want to know about American life."--Carolyn See, Washington Post, "An extraordinary book-wholly absorbing, brilliant, and utterly Shields's own. Early on, I thought of the word 'extrospective' to describe its wonderfully paradoxical method: one follows a character who is built out of the transient material of American popular culture but who turns into as singular a voice and (all irony intended) 'personality' as anyone now writing in America." -Jonathan Raban, " Remote should, in retrospect, be seen as one of the definitive texts of the 1990s . . . a mordant meditation on the odd way we live now-in the thrall of celebrity, at the mercy of the media, at once desperate for authenticity and in love with artifice."-A. O. Scott, Newsday, "The talented Mr. Shields gives us a clever collection of vignettes, descriptions, commentaries, and aperçus held together by the author's voice and a finely tuned sense of the absurd. . . . Remote is elliptical, funny, and ironic."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, "An extraordinary book--wholly absorbing, brilliant, and utterly Shields's own. Early on, I thought of the word 'extrospective' to describe its wonderfully paradoxical method: one follows a character who is built out of the transient material of American popular culture but who turns into as singular a voice and (all irony intended) 'personality' as anyone now writing in America." --Jonathan Raban, "The talented Mr. Shields gives us a clever collection of vignettes, descriptions, commentaries, and aperus held together by the author's voice and a finely tuned sense of the absurd. . . . Remote is elliptical, funny, and ironic."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, " Remote should, in retrospect, be seen as one of the definitive texts of the 1990s . . . a mordant meditation on the odd way we live now--in the thrall of celebrity, at the mercy of the media, at once desperate for authenticity and in love with artifice."--A. O. Scott, Newsday, "An idiosyncratic, droll, ravishing assemblage that both investigates and replicates the fragmented, irony-poisoned, celebrity-obsessed consciousness of fin de siècle America."- Kirkus Reviews, "An idiosyncratic, droll, ravishing assemblage that both investigates and replicates the fragmented, irony-poisoned, celebrity-obsessed consciousness of fin de sicle America."-- Kirkus Reviews, "The talented Mr. Shields gives us a clever collection of vignettes, descriptions, commentaries, and aperçus held together by the author's voice and a finely tuned sense of the absurd. . . . Remote is elliptical, funny, and ironic."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, "An idiosyncratic, droll, ravishing assemblage that both investigates and replicates the fragmented, irony-poisoned, celebrity-obsessed consciousness of fin de si cle America."- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-006269
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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