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Screening room : family pictures / Alan Lightman.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.I45397 Z46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lightman, Alan P., 1948-.
- Lightman, Alan P.
- Lightman, Alan P., 1948---Family.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Families.
- Memphis (Tenn.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Memphis (Tenn.).
- Memphis (Tenn.)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Lightman's grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his children and grandchildren. In this ... memoir, the author chronicles his return to Memphis in an attempt to understand the origins he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts begin telling family stories, Lightman rediscovers his southern roots and slowly recognizes the errors in his perceptions of both his grandfather and his father, who was himself crushed by M.A."--Dust jacket flap.
- Notes:
- Subtitle in pre-publication: A memoir.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780307379399
- 0307379396
- OCLC:
- 869919481
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