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. ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Silver Light to cart. $1.99, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in fine dj. Dust Jacket Included. Book Small remainder dot top edge. Set in The West from late 19th Cent to 1950 map endpapers. fine in fine dj, black cloth w/ gray boards 333 pgs.
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New York. 1990. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394556224. 333 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In this book John Wayne, Charles Ives, Billy the Kid and a painting by Albert Bierstadt make cameo appearances. This novel examines the relationship between past and present, fact and fiction, history and legend of the American West at a time when it was being ‘discovered' and tamed. inventory #13696.
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Knopf, 1990. 1st, Very good., Hardcover, Octavo, 333. Bright, clean, tight, in dust jacket. Light wear. Remainder dot on top edge. First edition. Packed and shipped with care.
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Chip Kidd (cover design) As New/fine, Very good. 8vo, 333, Gray with black spine and silver lettering. Map endpapers. Small crease in upper corner of jacket.
Add this copy of Silver Light to cart. $12.95, good condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf.
