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Title: Memories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis White ISBN: 1-56478-189-5 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Remember the "test" pattern?
Comment: Buy it. Read it. Savor it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious, irreverant, and sad.
Comment: Hilarious, irreverant, highly original, and deeply resonant, but finally a sad lament about the relationship of a father and son via the TV. Memories of My Father Watching TV has as its protagonists television shows of the 1950s and '60s, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience, veering off into whacky "memories" where what really happened is often confused with vaguely remembered television plot lines, and become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in shows like "Combat," "Highway Patrol," and "Bonanza." In the background, as children try to fit themselves into the family mythology of good and bad TV, their budding imaginations record every hurt, near hurt, or imagined hurt inflicted upon them by silent, depressed, nearly catatonic fathers. Comic in many ways, Memories of My Father Watching TV pricks at the pain lurking beneath the blue-light glow of one of our most universal experiences -- staring at the tube.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning
Comment: Whether he's talking about the Kitchen Debates or about the Third Man, Curtis White's prose is absolutely stunning. A challenging and difficult read, Memories of My Father Watching T.V. is both a devestating social critique and an honest and heartfelt personal journey. Grappling with complex themes which focus on identity formation and masculinity, White masterfully constructs his novel around the ways in which a father and son are constructed by 50's and 60's television shows. While some of his subtle allusions to Freudian psychoanalysis may be jarring and grotesque, his narrative is seamless and eloquent. Particularly interesting is reading Memories while also reading Montrous Possibility, essays in which he talks about himself as a writer, and more specifically as a postmodern writer. Edgy and daring; I loved the book and highly recommend it. Who couldn't love flowers spontaneously errupting from a underneath a general's helmet?!
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Title: The Middle Mind : Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White ISBN: 0060524367 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Requiem by Curtis White ISBN: 1564783081 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Stephen Burn ISBN: 082641477X Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz ISBN: 097094280X Publisher: 3rd bed Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: World Light by Halldor Laxness ISBN: 0375727574 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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