{"product_id":"silver-light-paperback","title":"Silver Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful 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 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in 1950, the novel tells the tale of two 'relics' of the old West: Susan Garth, a reclusive octogenarian photographer, and her friend Bark Blaylock, an equally reclusive 75-year-old writer of Western comic books. Their life stories tell the tale of the West, a place of 'silver, space, the epitome of liberty.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Susan and Bark cross paths with the characters of movies such as Wagonmaster, \u003ci\u003eMcCabe and Mrs. Miller, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\u003c\/i\u003e. They had also been witness to the slaying of Billy the Kid, the cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining history, fiction, and the fabricated realities of film, Thomson examines the mythic image of the West and its meaning for Americans.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish-American writer \u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. After seven years at Penguin, he became a Director of Film Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire between 1977 and 1981. Perhaps best known for his magisterial \u003ci\u003eBiographical Dictionary of Film, \u003c\/i\u003e Thomson is a prolific writer on film including biographies of David O Selznick and Orson Welles, and two books on Hollywood: \u003ci\u003eBeneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697317679167,"sku":"9780857305022","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a2017f185d55299d865f52d605c2ac70.webp?v=1765009113","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/silver-light-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}