Purchase
A Memoir
Twelve
March 2008
On Sale: March 6, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 044619929X
EAN: 9780446199292
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Memoir
At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.
 Media BuzzStudio 360 - June 12, 2010
Talk of the Nation - May 6, 2008
Studio 360 - April 26, 2008
| 
© 2003-2026