The Film Club - Hardcover

Gilmour, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044619929X ISBN 13: 9780446199292

Publisher: Twelve, 2008

Synopsis

225 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. The True Story Of A Father Who Let His Son Drop Out Of School-if He Watched Three Movies A Week.

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Review:

"David Gilmour is broke, more or less unemployed and has two children by two different women. When it looks as though his teenage son is about to go off the rails, he reaches out to him through the only subject he knows anything about: the movies. The result is an object lesson in how fathers should talk to their sons." (Toby Young)

"I loved David Gilmour's sleek, potent little memoir, The Film Club. It's so, so wise in the ways of fathers and sons, of movies and movie-goers, of love and loss." (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls)

"The Film Club is an excellent choice for a book club, and it's as good as a David Gilmour novel. That's saying a lot" (Toronto Star)

"What makes the story so readable is its mix of sentiment and cynicism, its cockeyed wisdom ... Gilmour is a brave writer and a brave father" (National Post)

"The book is meaningful, is insightful, is valuable. It is, what's more, a compelling, often tender account of a parent's deep concern for his child" (Globe and Mail)

Book Description:

The touching, true story of what happens when a father tries to educate his chaotic teenage son through film

About this edition

• Publisher: Twelve
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 044619929X
• ISBN 13: 9780446199292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 225