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02307aim a2200265 a 4500 001 22054DCE6A7011EA92D9643897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200320010019 007 sd 008 190905s2016 nnn z eng d 020 $a 0062695460 020 $a 9780062695468 040 $a $c $d SILO 100 1 $a Lamb, Wally. 245 10 $a I'll take you there [a sound recording] : $b a novel / $c Wally Lamb. 260 $a Prince Frederick, MD : $b Recorded Books, $c 2016. 300 $a 6 compact discs (7 hrs.) Unabridged fiction 500 $a Narrated by George Guidall. 520 $a [This story] centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist 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. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There's his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; 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 that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses. 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. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Fiction. 700 $a Guidall, George. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015008.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=22054DCE6A7011EA92D9643897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search