{"product_id":"remote-reflections-on-life-in-the-shadow-of-celebrity-0299193640","title":"Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0299193640\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shields, David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePEN\/Revson Award, 1992In 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51935034605856,"sku":"NEW0299193640","price":23.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/remote-reflections-on-life-in-the-shadow-of-celebrity-0299193640","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}