I'll take you there : a novel / Wally Lamb.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062657473 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 329 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Women > Influence > Fiction. Motion pictures > Fiction. Large type books. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Gibsons Public Library | LP FIC LAMB (Text) | 30886001030119 | Large print fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Film scholar Felix Funicello is confronted by the ghost of a Hollywood silent film director who invites him to revisit scenes from his past and gain insights into the lives of three women who indelibly shaped his life. - Baker & Taylor
Film scholar Felix Funicello fromWishin' and Hopin' is confronted by the ghost of a Hollywood silent film director who invites him to revisit scenes from his past and gain insights into the lives of three women who indelibly shaped his life. (general fiction). Simultaneous. - HARPERCOLL
In this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lambâauthor of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including Sheâs Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Waterâweaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it.
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Iâll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, heâs confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywoodâs silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisitâand in some cases reliveâscenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinemaâs big screen.
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In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. Thereâs his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses.
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Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face.
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