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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: I'll take you there
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: I will take you there
  name:
    name part: Lamb, Wally
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 254 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he's confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood's silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit--and in some cases relive--scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema's big screen. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There's his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses. Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face"--
  abstract: "From the New York Times bestselling author of WISHIN' AND HOPIN', a remarkably evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--and the women who have changed it--in the American Century"--
  note: Wally Lamb.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Influence
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Contemporary Women
  classification: PS3562.A433 I45 2016
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC045000 FIC019000
  identifier: 9780062656285 (hardback)
  identifier: 0062656287 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780062656292 (ebook)
  identifier: 0062656295
  identifier: 2016032491
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160826
    record change date: 20161216082505.0
    record identifier: in00003720696
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng