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How to Restore a Timeline - by  Peter Counter (Paperback) - 1 of 1

How to Restore a Timeline - by Peter Counter (Paperback)

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  • When a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety.
  • Author(s): Peter Counter
  • 272 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Memoirs

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"A kaleidoscopic blend of personal essays and cultural criticism that explores the profound and occasionally horrific truths of what it means to be traumatized. When a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety. Returning home, Counter discovers that his sense of time and memory is shattered, and in its place is a budding new mental illness: post-traumatic stress disorder. Counter begins to see violence everywhere. From the music of Cat Stevens to Jeb Bush's Twitter feed. Walter Benjamin to Johnny Carson. Taskmaster. Video games. ASMR videos on YouTube. The world is steeped in gore. Again and again, Counter finds himself reliving his father's shooting as his trauma is fragmented, recast, and distorted on a compulsive mental tilt-a-whirl. Formally inventive and incisively smart, How to Restore a Timeline revels in a fragile human condition battered by real conflict and hyper-curated media portrayals of death. Channelling John Jerimiah Sullivan and Carmen Maria Machado, these essays look us dead in the eye and ask: What kind of life can we piece together amid all the carnage?"--



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When a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety. Returning home, Counter discovers that his sense of time and memory is shattered, and in its place is a budding new mental illness: post-traumatic stress disorder.

Counter begins to see violence everywhere. From the music of Cat Stevens to Jeb Bush's Twitter feed. Walter Benjamin to Johnny Carson. Taskmaster. Video games. ASMR videos on YouTube. The world is steeped in gore. Again and again, Counter finds himself reliving his father's shooting as his trauma is fragmented, recast, and distorted on a compulsive mental Tilt-A-Whirl.

Formally inventive and incisively smart, How to Restore a Timeline revels in a fragile human condition battered by real conflict and hyper-curated media portrayals of death. Channelling Phoebe Bridgers, George Orwell, and Jordan Peele, these essays look us dead in the eye and ask: What kind of life can we piece together amid all the carnage?



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"How to Restore a Timeline is warm, sad, and contemplative. Language and detail are components that make it shine. The guts of this book are dark and painful, but it never wallows in victimhood ... If you're interested in dark and unusual stories with sharp and clear writing, that skillfully wield humour, heart, and pop-culture, and that thoughtfully dissect pain and mental illness, then this constellation of essays will probably be for you." -- subTerrain



"An exquisitely exact mesh of author, expertise, and subject colours How to Restore a Timeline ... Infused with the intersection between Counter's life and interests, the essays produce new ways of looking, and new ripples in the timeline." -- Canadian Notes and Queries



"A deeply vulnerable book, How to Restore a Timeline encourages readers to reflect on their own pain." -- Literary Review of Canada



"Counter articulates how trauma not only radically alters the present but deforms the past and creates the future anew ... Many pieces are treasures animated by a keen critical eye and welcome sense of humour ... Counter does not offer nor encourage escape. Instead, he articulates ways of re-reading these moments of trauma, of understanding them in ways that offer, if not absence, then perhaps amelioration." -- Winnipeg Free Press



"Counter is a gifted writer, with a keen eye and what seems to be a ravenous mind. The book is dizzying and thought-provoking, clearly thought and deeply felt." -- Toronto Star


Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .71 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Memoirs
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Peter Counter
Language: English
Street Date: October 10, 2023
TCIN: 1009312667
UPC: 9781487011994
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-5018
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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