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The Film Club: A Memoir
by Gilmour, David
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0887623492
- ISBN 13
- 9780887623493
- Seller
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About This Item
Twelve, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. As New, An Unread Copy - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ From The 2005 Winner Of The Governor-General'S Award For Fiction And The Former National Film Critic For Cbc Television Comes A Delightful And Absorbing Book About The Agonies And Joys Of Home-Schooling A Beloved Son. Written In The Spare Elegant Style He Is Known For, The Film Club Is The True Story About David Gilmour'S Decision To Let His 15-Year-Old Son Drop Out Of High School On The Condition That The Boy Agrees To Watch Three Films A Week With Him. The Book Examines How Those Pivotal Years Changed Both Their Lives. From French New Wave, Kurosawa, And New German Cinema, To De Palma, Film Noir, Cronenberg And Billy Wilder, Among Many Others From World Cinema, We Read About Key Moments In Each Film, As The Author Teaches His Son About Life And The Vagaries Of Growing Up Through The Power Of The Movies. Replete With Page-Turning Descriptions Of Scenes And Actors And Directors, The Narrative Is Framed With The Tender Story Of His Son'S First Bittersweet First Loves. This Is A Charming And Poignant Story About A Very Special Time In A Father And Son'S Relationship. David Gilmour Is A Novelist Who Has Earned Critical Praise From Literary Figures As Diverse As William Burroughs And Northrop Frye, And From Publications As Different As The New York Times To People Magazine. The Author Of Six Novels, He Also Hosted The Award-Winning Gilmour On The Arts. He Lives In Toronto With His Wife Tina Gladstone.
Synopsis
"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." --- Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls"If all sons had dads like David Gilmour, then Oedipus would be a forgotten legend and Father's Day would be a worldwide film festival."--Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All"David Gilmour is a very unlikely moral guidance counselor: he's broke, more or less unemployed and has two children by two different women. Yet when it looks as though his teenage son is about to go off the rails, he reaches out to him through the only subject he knows anything about: the movies. The result is an object lesson in how fathers should talk to their sons." --Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.
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- Bookseller
- Alright Bookstore
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008825
- Title
- The Film Club: A Memoir
- Author
- Gilmour, David
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0887623492
- ISBN 13
- 9780887623493
- Publisher
- Twelve
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 147
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Adventurers, Literary Figures, Gift For Her, Gift For Him, Christmas Gift, Good Reads, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Personal Memoirs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography - Biography - Memoir;
- X weight
- 450 g
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