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I'll take you there : a novel / Wally Lamb.
Author
Lamb, Wally
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Harper, [2016]
Description
254 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3562.A433 I45 2016
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Subject(s)
Families
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Fiction
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Women
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Influence
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Fiction
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Motion pictures
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Fiction
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Domestic fiction
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Series
Lamb, Wally. Wishin' and hopin' ; 2.
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Wishin' and hopin' ; 2
Summary note
"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll 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, he's confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit--and in some cases relive--scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema's big screen. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There's 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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I will take you there
ISBN
9780062656285 ((hardback))
0062656287 ((hardback))
9781786330666
1786330660
9780062662712
0062662716
9780062662682
0062662686
9780062662705
0062662708
9780062662729
0062662724
LCCN
2016032491
OCLC
954569359
Other standard number
40026618903
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