Memories of My Father Watching TV

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 06/01/1998
ISBN: 9781564781895
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.57w x 0.58d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/04/1998 pg. 205
Booklist 05/15/1998 pg. 1597
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/1998 pg. 687
Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 162
New York Times 08/30/1998 pg. 17