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Remote [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
by Shields, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- vg
- ISBN 10
- 0679445919
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445913
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2"). [12], 203, [7]pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over half green cloth and blue & red paper covered boards, with yellow lettering to spine, and black lettering to covers. Title page inscribed and signed by the author.
"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." (From the Publishers).
Dust-jacket, binding and interior in very good condition.
"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." (From the Publishers).
Dust-jacket, binding and interior in very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41835
- Title
- Remote [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
- Author
- Shields, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679445919
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445913
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Title Page
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- Inscribed
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- VG
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