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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....

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A fascinating novel. With its rich, handsome prose, this is a book to savor -- William Hjortsberg * New York Times *
Thomson's intricate, hypnotic history/romance about the Old West and how we have come to perceive it... Masterly * Los Angeles Times *
Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West * Publishers Weekly *

Silver Light

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    A Paperback / softback by David Thomson

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      Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9780857305022, 978-0857305022
      ISBN10: 0857305026
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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....

      Trade Review
      A fascinating novel. With its rich, handsome prose, this is a book to savor -- William Hjortsberg * New York Times *
      Thomson's intricate, hypnotic history/romance about the Old West and how we have come to perceive it... Masterly * Los Angeles Times *
      Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West * Publishers Weekly *

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