From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces – historical, mythic, and cinematic – are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Two characters dominate the novel's foreground: a Georgia O'Keeffe-like figure, photographer Susan Garth, shrewd, cantankerous, reclusive, and still self-reliant at 80, and her longtime friend Bark Blaylock, a western writer/filmmaker who may be Wyatt Earp's son. A subplot involves James Averill, a wealthy Easterner who sees his philandering as a frontiersman's quest for knowledge. As the time frame shuttles between 1950 and the late 1800s, we meet Susan's father, a gentlemanly cattle rancher who reads Thomas Hardy, and serves as a springboard to the Old West of Bat Masterson, Geronimo and Billy the Kid. The cast includes Willa Cather, Montgomery Clift, Charles Ives, Judge Roy Bean and numerous characters smuggled in from such movies as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Silver Light artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.
Free UK standard delivery on all online orders over £25
All orders (standard delivery): £3.00
Next day (orders placed between 2pm Mon - Fri): £6.00
Standard delivery: 3-5 working days (Highlands and Islands 5-7 working days)
Next day delivery: Available all UK excluding Highlands and Islands
Collect your order from a local shop – prices and delivery times as above
Overseas
All orders: delivery costs for orders outside the UK are based on country of destination and product weight.
You can view your overseas delivery cost using the Summary section within the Basket.
For more information on delivery/overseas orders please refer to our Delivery Information.
product
https://www.psbooks.co.uk/silver-light540360Silver Lighthttps://www.psbooks.co.uk/media/catalog/product/5/4/540360_media-0_8.jpg5.995.99GBPInStock/Almost Gone/Almost Gone Fiction/Fiction/Fiction/Categories/Historical FictionFrom 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces – historical, mythic, and cinematic – are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Two characters dominate the novel's foreground: a Georgia O'Keeffe-like figure, photographer Susan Garth, shrewd, cantankerous, reclusive, and still self-reliant at 80, and her longtime friend Bark Blaylock, a western writer/filmmaker who may be Wyatt Earp's son. A subplot involves James Averill, a wealthy Easterner who sees his philandering as a frontiersman's quest for knowledge. As the time frame shuttles between 1950 and the late 1800s, we meet Susan's father, a gentlemanly cattle rancher who reads Thomas Hardy, and serves as a springboard to the Old West of Bat Masterson, Geronimo and Billy the Kid. The cast includes Willa Cather, Montgomery Clift, Charles Ives, Judge Roy Bean and numerous characters smuggled in from such movies as <i>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance</i> and <i>McCabe and Mrs. Miller</i>. <i>Silver Light</i> artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.Paperback00https://www.psbooks.co.uk/media/catalog/product/5/4/540360_media-1_8.jpgadd-to-cartrrp_info:£12.99productId:163989bic_code:FT, FVFT, FV£12.99David ThomsonGeneral198x129mmKameraPaperbackView AllView All
