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Silver Light (Paperback)
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Silver Light (Paperback)
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List price R390
Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
You Save R72 (18%)
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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. 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, and her
longtime friend Bark Blaylock, a western writer/filmmaker who may
be Wyatt Earp's son. A subplot involves James Averill, a wealthy
Easterner who sees his philandering as a frontiersman's quest for
knowledge. As the time frame shuttles between 1950 and the late
1800s, we meet Susan's father, a gentlemanly cattle rancher who
reads Thomas Hardy, and serves as a springboard to the Old West of
Bat Masterson, Geronimo and Billy the Kid. The cast includes Willa
Cather, Montgomery Clift, Charles Ives, Judge Roy Bean and numerous
characters smuggled in from such movies as The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Silver Light artfully
juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of
the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.
General
Imprint: |
Kamera Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2022 |
Authors: |
David Thomson
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85730-502-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
0-85730-502-6 |
Barcode: |
9780857305022 |
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