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by David Thomson

Type

Novel

Subject

Genre > Comedy/Humor

Keywords

novel, comedy

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Kamera Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 448 pages
5 x 7 ¾ inches (12.5 x 19.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-85730-502-2

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Book Presentation:
A screwball comedy where reality blurs with film fantasy.

In David Thomson's Connecticut, a film scholar researching movie kisses finds himself committed to a mental asylum in Connecticut. He encounters eccentric patients who seem to have stepped out of classic films, leading him to question his sanity and the nature of reality. Is he truly ill, or is Connecticut a haven for those who dare to see the world differently?

As the lines between reality and fantasy blur, he grapples with his identity and the power of storytelling. For fans of witty, character-driven narratives that explore the intersection of mental health and film history, Connecticut offers a humorous and thought-provoking journey into the heart of madness. Will he find a way to escape, or will he embrace the screwball world of Connecticut? This is a literary fiction for those who enjoy psychological explorations and dark humor.

About the Author:
English-American writer David Thomson was educated at Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. After seven years at Penguin, he became a Director of Film Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire between 1977 and 1981. Perhaps best known for his magisterial Biographical Dictionary of Film, Thomson is a prolific writer on film including biographies of David O Selznick and Orson Welles, and two books on Hollywood: Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.

Press Reviews:
"The peculiar combination of hype and history that forms the instant myth of the West is the matrix of this engrossing fiction, in which Mr. Thomson combines real characters with those of his own invention, an amalgam as tantalizing as that in E. L. Doctorow's ''Ragtime.''. . . With its rich, handsome prose, this is a book to savor." —New York Times

"Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West. . . Artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul." —Publishers Weekly

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