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by David Shields

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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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  • Title Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
  • Author David Shields
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date September 15, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780299193645 / 0299193640
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.28 x 0.47 in (22.15 x 13.41 x 1.19 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Shields, David
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003006269
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

David Shields is the author of three other nonfiction books, Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Enough About You, and Baseball Is Just Baseball; two novels, Dead Languages and Heroes; and a collection of connected stories, A Handbook for Drowning. His essays and stories have appeared in dozens of periodicals, including the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader. He lives in Seattle, where he is professor of English at the University of Washington.

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