Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307473172)

David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis. He remembers how his grandmother brought him to a street corner to see Churchill and how the bombed-out houses that still smelled of smoke became his playground. We see Thomson attempt to overcome his profound sadness at being abandonded by his cold and distant father by finding solace in the cinema houses. Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed in Red River, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane helped to alleviate his loneliness and bolster his rich imaginative life.

Author: David Thomson
ISBN-10: 0307473171
ISBN-13: 9780307473172
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.38w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/21/2010 pg. 20