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基本信息·出版社：Algonquin Books
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：1565125398
·International Standard Book Number：1565125398
·条形码：9781565125391
·EAN：9781565125391
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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Alternately hilarious and trenchant in its observations about our media-crazed culture, this is the true tale of a TV-addicted mother's struggle to kick the habit and keep the boob tube out of her son's daily existence.
Like most parents, Ellen Currey-Wilson and her husband aspired to be better parents than their own. Currey-Wilson, who shared most of her childhood with
The Beverly Hillbillies, maintained intimate relationships with Mary, Rhoda, and Phyllis, and remained up-to-date on the fictional history of every character on
Friends, longs for her son, Casey, to know the people around him better than he knows the
Teletubbies. And, like most parents, she goes a bit overboard.
In her revealing and outspoken take on parenting, Currey-Wilson recounts her increasingly outlandish behavior—such as literally throwing herself in front of the TV set at her son's playmates' houses to prevent any inadvertent watching—and the intermittent fits of insecurity that find her worrying whether Casey might be ostracized for not knowing the theme song to
SpongeBob SquarePants. But something remarkable happens as TV assumes a backseat to real life: Currey-Wilson's relationships with her laidback husband, new-age sister, eccentric mother, and remarkably self-possessed son begin to deepen and grow. In an age when it's easier to flip on the TV than to interact with people,
The Big Turnoff shows what happens when one woman decides to buck the trend.
作者简介 When she finally stopped watching reruns of
Seinfeld, Ellen Currey-Wilson brought TV-Turnoff Week to her son's school and started inspiring others to get unplugged. She now offers TV-free parenting workshops and has been featured in newspapers and magazines for her work. Currey-Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and son, one cat, and, yes, one television.
媒体推荐 "An amusing account of one woman's stand against the most dominant force in American culture." -Booklist (
Booklist )
"An entertaining, inspiring and decidedly countercultural account of parenting in a media-crazy world." - Kirkus Reviews (
Kirkus Reviews )
专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyCurrey-Wilson decides in the early stages of her pregnancy that her child will grow up without television so the family can form stronger emotional ties; the only problem is that she herself is totally addicted to the tube. She does manage to cut down her viewing after her son's birth, taking her vigilance in maintaining his abstinence to extremes. She panics when she brings Casey to a friend's house and finds a television on. She grants him permission to watch the Olympics, then leaps in front of the set to block the commercials. But when her son doesn't play with his classmates, her fear runs in the opposite direction—should she have let him watch TV so he'd be able to fit in with other kids? Currey-Wilson's vocal, earnest hostility to mainstream culture (even when she's basking in sitcoms) sometimes makes it hard to sympathize, except that she's also bracingly up-front about her insecurities and petty jealousies. And her anti-TV crusade becomes much less simplistic as she reveals how much she's still playing out the dramas of her own childhood. Curry-Wilson writes with self-effacing humor, and any mom can identify with her sincere effort to give her child the best she can.
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