
Silver Light
$26.86
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2022
Summary
Silver Light: Echoes of the American West
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.
Two characters dominate the novel’s foreground: a Georgia O’Keeffe-like figure, photographer Susan Garth, shrewd, cantankerous, reclusive, and still self-reliant at 80, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857305022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857305026 |
| Author: | David Thomson |
| Publisher: | Oldcastle Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Kamera Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
A fascinating novel. With 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 *
About The Author
David Thomson
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. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.
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