Silver Light
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
From 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
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.' Susan and Bark cross paths with the characters of movies such as Wagonmaster, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. 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.
Combining history, fiction, and the fabricated realities of film, Thomson examines the mythic image of the West and its meaning for Americans.
'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
David Thomson
David Thomson is the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Biographical Dictionary of Film, biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick, and the pioneering novel Suspects, which featured characters from film. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Read more from David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ingrid Bergman Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bette Davis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGary Cooper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConnecticut Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Silver Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Guide to Growing Pineapples under Glass Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrowing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Silver Light
Related ebooks
The End of Vandalism: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Citizen of the Country: Reisden & Perdita Mysteries, #3 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Letters From the Horse Latitudes: Short Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Throttled Peacock: Observations on the Old World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNatural Selections Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadow Dance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTucson Salvage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScenes From the Heatland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Invaders of the Cowboy Skies: "Death Comes From the Skies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlinding Light: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Life in Heavy Metal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Golden Spurs: The Best Of Western Short Fiction Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Clock Struck None Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShaman's Dream: The Modoc War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrillers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAncient Winds: The Pathway Series, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSixguns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Dave Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5From Cape Town with Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Ãntonia: With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJourney: A Western Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBodies Electric: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insurrection: Tiger Legion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Hotel Murder Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Dream Like Mine: (Exile Classics Series Number 16) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Western Fiction For You
Knotted: Trails of Sin, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rider of Lost Creek: A Western Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Thief of Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Trent: A Western Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Simply Cherokee: Let’s Learn Cherokee: Syllabary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGolden Gunmen: A Western Sextet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dancing at Midnight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man from Battle Flat: A Western Trio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weird Wild West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A River Runs through It and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caroline: Little House, Revisited Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Duane's Depressed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bannon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Man's Walk: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Searchers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ridgeline: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dead Ringer: A Western Trio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Giant: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Raylan Goes to Detroit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Calico Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Riders of the Dawn: A Western Duo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killer Joe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Folly and Glory: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sisters Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unwanted: Dead or Alive Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Glory Riders: A Western Sextet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Texasville: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Silver Light
0 ratings0 reviews