Silver Light by David Thomson
From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colourful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Silver Light artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.
A fascinating novelWith its rich, handsome prose, this is a book to savor -- William Hjortsberg * New York Times *
Thomson's intricate, hypnotic history/romance about the Old West and how we have come to perceive it... Masterly * Los Angeles Times *
Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West * Publishers Weekly *
Thomson's intricate, hypnotic history/romance about the Old West and how we have come to perceive it... Masterly * Los Angeles Times *
Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West * Publishers Weekly *
English-American writer David Thomson was educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. After seven years at Penguin Books, he became a Director of Film Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire between 1977 and 1981. Perhaps best known for his magisterial Biographical Dictionary of Film, Thomson is a prolific writer on film including biographies of David O Selznick and Orson Welles, and two books on Hollywood: Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780857305022 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857305026 |
| Title | Silver Light |
| Author | David Thomson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oldcastle Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |