Screening Room: Family Pictures
by:
Alan Lightman (author)
From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, here is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost continues to haunt the family.Alan Lightman’s...
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From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, here is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost continues to haunt the family.Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family’s undisputed patriarch: it was his movie thea
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780307379399 (0307379396)
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Screening Room is broken down into a series of essays that are essentially vignettes of Wightman's family past. I thought it was a creative way of retelling a family story, though the book designer responsible for the interior who chose Papyrus for section headings was misguided. The outside of the ...
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