{"product_id":"silver-light-9780857305022","title":"Silver Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in 1950, the novel tells the tale of two 'relics' of the old West: Susan Garth, a reclusive octogenarian photographer, and her friend Bark Blaylock, an equally reclusive 75-year-old writer of Western comic books. Their life stories tell the tale of the West, a place of 'silver, space, the epitome of liberty.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Susan and Bark cross paths with the characters of movies such as Wagonmaster, \u003ci\u003eMcCabe and Mrs. Miller, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\u003c\/i\u003e. They had also been witness to the slaying of Billy the Kid, the cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining history, fiction, and the fabricated realities of film, Thomson examines the mythic image of the West and its meaning for Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kamera Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857305022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"David Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451342852277,"sku":"9780857305022","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2aabb32a-0ca5-4af3-8e91-f5ef4e75e4a2.jpg?v=1666107369","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/silver-light-9780857305022","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}