{"product_id":"unreel-a-memoir","title":"Unreel: A memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliantly funny, achingly nostalgic memoir of a life spent watching and writing, from the award-winning reviewer and bestselling author of Driving to Treblinka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn to a Polish Holocaust survivor father and a 1950s Kiwi tradwife too busy to police her viewing, Diana Wichtel cut her teeth on the Golden Age of television.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in the 1960s, things fell apart. Diana's fractured family left Canada and blew in to New Zealand, just missing the Beatles, and minus a father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana watched television being born again half a world away, and twenty years later walked into the smoky, clacking offices of the Listener where she became the country's foremost television critic - loved and loathed, with the hate mail in seething capital letters to prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, television's sometimes-pale imitation - real life - unreeled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a sharply funny, wise and profound memoir of growing up and becoming a writer, of parents and children, early marriage and divorce, finding love again . . . and of the box we gathered around in our living rooms that changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46263083565279,"sku":"9781776950614","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781776950614.jpg?v=1744076504","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/unreel-a-memoir","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}