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Chargement... Screening Room: Family Picturespar Alan Lightman
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) vpfluke | Oct 23, 2019 |  Florinda | Jul 23, 2015 | That’s Alan Lightman, theoretical physicist and creative writer, who returns to his childhood hometown for an uncle’s funeral and stays for a prolonged visit that becomes this memoir (or is it a novel?) of his family and 1960s Memphis. I loved Einstein’s Dreams and liked Mr g, and this narrative is similarly structured as a collection of short vignettes. It seemed like a light read, and with less dreaminess and less memorable language than his other books ... until I collected my notes to write this review and discovered I’d marked a dozen passages that were separately striking and collectively substantive. It also seemed less a memoir and more a documentation of Lightman’s paternal lineage (particularly a prestigious movie-theater business) and the R&B/rock-and-roll and civil-rights history of Memphis. Still, the history is interesting and, like Paul Auster’s Winter Journal, the ordinary and personal events of family become universal and profound, and prompted memories of my own life. And while Lightman-the-scientist says the stories of his immediate family are for the most part true and the Memphis aspects are historically accurate, Lightman-the-artist is here, too, imagining other aspects including some made-up relatives that were, curiously, my favorites. (Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.) (  )3  DetailMuse | Feb 3, 2015 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams, here is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost continues to haunt the family. Alan Lightman's grandfather M. A. Lightman was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the family to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his descendants, haunting them for a half century after his death. In this lyrical and impressionistic memoir, Lightman writes about returning to Memphis in an attempt to understand the people he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts begin telling family stories, Lightman rediscovers his southern roots and slowly realizes the errors in his perceptions of his grandfather and of his own father, who had been crushed by M. A. Here is a family saga set against a throbbing century of Memphis—the rhythm and blues, the barbecue and pecan pie, and the segregated society—that includes personal encounters with Elvis, Martin Luther King Jr., and E. H. "Boss" Crump. At the heart of it all is a family haunted by the ghost of the domineering M. A. and the struggle of the author to understand his conflicted loyalties to his father and grandfather. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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