Memories of My Father Watching TV - Paperback
by Curtis White
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Availability:In StockContributor:Curtis WhiteSeries:American LiteratureTheme:Chronological Period/1950's, Chronological Period/1960's, Topical/FamilyPublish date:6/1/1998Pages:158
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781895ISBN-10:1564781895UPC:9781564781895Book Category:FictionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.227Product ID:SC1EPY61NJ
"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564781895ISBN-10:1564781895UPC:9781564781895Book Category:FictionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.227Product ID:SC1EPY61NJ
White, Curtis: - Curtis White is the author of the novels Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in Context and Harper's. He is an English professor at Illinois State University and the current president of the Center for Book Culture/Dalkey Archive Press
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