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The Silver Screen

by Maureen Howard

ISBN: 0670033588
ISBN-13: 9780670033584
Format: Hardcover

Customer Reviews

Media Reviews

"[T]he stories...are anchored by Howard's lovely and precise prose and by the complexities of communication and disconnection....Readers of the series so far will also have the pleasure of discovering further connections between disparate characters in this wide, season tapestry."

   -- Publishers Weekly

"[A] gossamer tale of transitions and death....Meticulous and graceful...."

   -- Kirkus

"SILVER SCREEN, which is told as the story of the Murphy family, is a searching series of variations on one of Howard's large themes: celebrity in American life, the allure it holds, the falsification it works. Persona versus person: it's a conflict that painfully engages the principal characters, New Englanders from a decayed seashore community."    -- Richard Eder

   -- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 244

Publisher's Notes

In the twilight days of silent film, Isabel Maher renounces the glitter and glamour of Hollywood to pursue a life as a wife and mother, as her three children struggle against the lives she as scripted for them--Joe, a Jesuit priest; Rita, who runs off with a gangster who turns state's evidence; and Gemma, angry and ambitious, who pursues fame as a photographer.

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