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I'll Take You There : A Novel

I'll Take You There : A Novel Paperback - 2017

by Wally Lamb

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HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title I'll Take You There : A Novel
  • Author Wally Lamb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Date 2017
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0062656309I3N10
  • ISBN 9780062656308 / 0062656309
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Library Reads
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

Felix is a film scholar who runs a Monday-night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. While setting up a film in the projectionist's 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.

The medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly affected his life. There's his daughter, Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York magazine; 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.

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.