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Between Panic And Desire (American Lives),Used
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Insouciant and irreverent are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moores booksand, invariably, hilarious. Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, A PostNixon, Postpanic, Postmodern, Postmortem, this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also happens to be our own.Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the authors early lifethe Kennedy assassination, Nixons resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a fewshaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, todays world for all of us who spent our formative years in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and fear, selfloathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in kaleidoscopic formsa coroners report, a TV movie script, a Zen koanaptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.
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