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A Memoir
Twelve
March 2008
On Sale: March 6, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 044619929X
EAN: 9780446199292
Hardcover
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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.
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