Try to Tell the Story
Author: Thomson, David
ISBN: 9780307473172
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England.P#160; He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis.P#160; He remembers how his grandmother brought him to a street corner to see Churchill and how the bombed-out houses that still smelled of smoke became his playground. We see Thomson attempt to overcome his profound sadness at being abandonded P#160;by his cold and distant father by finding solace in the cinema houses.P#160; Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed in Plt;iPgt;Red River, The Third Man,Plt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Citizen KanePlt;/iPgt; helped to alleviate his loneliness and bolster his rich imaginative life.
ISBN: 9780307473172
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Mar 2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England.P#160; He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis.P#160; He remembers how his grandmother brought him to a street corner to see Churchill and how the bombed-out houses that still smelled of smoke became his playground. We see Thomson attempt to overcome his profound sadness at being abandonded P#160;by his cold and distant father by finding solace in the cinema houses.P#160; Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed in Plt;iPgt;Red River, The Third Man,Plt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Citizen KanePlt;/iPgt; helped to alleviate his loneliness and bolster his rich imaginative life.
