{"product_id":"predator-a-memoir-9781644452004","title":"Predator: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of \u003ci\u003eI Will Take the Answer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film \u003ci\u003ePredator\u003c\/i\u003e, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, white, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply into his adolescence in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Riyadh, his role as a father and the loss of his own mother, and his friendships with men bound by the troubled camaraderie depicted in action and sci-fi blockbusters. Along with excursions into the conflicted pleasures of cosplay and first-person shooters, he imagines himself beside the poet and memoirist Paul Monette, who wrote the novelization of the movie while his partner was dying of AIDS. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA sincere and playful book that lovingly dissects the film, \u003ci\u003ePredator\u003c\/i\u003e also offers questions and critiques of masculinity, fandom, and their interrelation with acts of mass violence. In a stirring reversal, one chapter exposes Monson through the Predator's heat-seeking vision, asking him, \"What do you know about the workings of the hidden world?\" As Monson brings us into the brilliant depths of the film and its universe, the hunt begins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644452004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ander Monson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303949111477,"sku":"9781644452004","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b27b41da-3c11-40da-b624-25c1cce57072.jpg?v=1658843821","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/predator-a-memoir-9781644452004","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}