The Big Rewind (English)

The Onion's A/V club head writer Nathan Rabin chronicles his dysfunctional upbringing and his lifelong love-affair with popular culture in this droll yet heartfelt personal memoir. Abandoned by his mother and with his crippled lovable loser of a father unable to raise him, Rabin finds himself bounced through foster families and youth homes where he encounters a motley crew of misfits and weirdos. After a stint in a mental hospital, Rabin decides that people's personalities are defined by what popular culture they consume, and his oddball memoir sails off on quirky tangents about the meaning of rap and television. THE BIG REWIND is a charming account of an off-kilter kid who grows up to write with passion about art--or at least entertainment. minimize