{"product_id":"the-birds-that-fly-backwards-volume-i-ouroboros-9798234015723","title":"The Birds That Fly Backwards: Volume I - Ouroboros","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA transcendent memoir from the Peabody Award-winning writer behind \u003cem\u003eBattlestar Galactica, For All Mankind\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eStar Trek: Deep Space Nine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A stunning and deeply personal work of art.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e -Liz Phang\u003c\/strong\u003e, Writer\/Producer for \u003cem\u003eYellowjackets, Foundation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Birds That Fly Backwards: Volume I - Ouroboros\u003c\/em\u003e, David Weddle delivers a harrowing, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant journey into the heart of an American family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning from 1926 to 1996, this complex memoir is told not in conventional prose, but in the gripping, kinetic form of a screenplay because the Weddle family worshipped movies and mythologized their own stories through the lens of the cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside the Narrative: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Origins of an Artist: \u003c\/strong\u003e Follow David's formative years, from his 1960s childhood obsession with movies to his graduation from USC Cinema School.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Family Through the Prism: \u003c\/strong\u003e Witness the intersecting journeys of various members of the Weddle family. Their conflicting points of view dramatize the absence of any absolute truth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Portrait of an Epoch: \u003c\/strong\u003eExperience sixty years of American life as the Weddle family grapples with the highs and lows of the \"Greatest Generation\" and the turbulent legacy of the generation that followed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the \"raw cunning\" and \"deep empathy\" that have made Weddle a titan of modern television, this \"memory play\" unearths the crucibles where characters-and people-are truly made. 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