The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company

by Jay Neugeboren

Book Overview

The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company is an enchanting tale set in the silent film era. Beginning in 1915, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where a Jewish family makes one and two reel silent films, the novel is composed of six chapters, each a discrete silent film in itself. Joey, the too-beautiful-to-be-a-boy son of moviemaker, Simon, and his actress wife, Hannah, imagines stories that his uncle's camera turns into scenes for their movies. Witness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727793
• ISBN13: 9780896727793
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.2"