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Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir
From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties. Told with elegance and restraint, partly from the point of view of a child, partly from that of an adult, it is the story of a lonely, stammering boy cared for by a...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
February 3rd 2009
by Knopf
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There's an enmeshment of the personal and the critical/journalistic that gives all of Thomson's work its distinctiveness (and sometimes its fascinating creepiness--that Nicole Kidman biography!!). But what if, rather than making a critique and/or analysis of a film or public figure the starting point from which he inevitably arrives at those personal elements, he actually started with the personal--memories of growing up in England in the '40s and '50s--and wove in the film, theatre, sports, and...more
Lovely memoir by one of the best film critics writing today. He also lives now in SF. This is the story of his childhood in London while growing up after the war. It gives a personal feeling of the sweetness of boyhood as well the yearning for his father's love. They shared many things but the Dad had another family and disappeared from home mysteriously every week. I liked the tension between the chronicle of the world around him and his feelings for his family. The changes in British li...more
This book would have been a delight if I hadn't heard David many times in person. One of my favorite stories is truncated here, saved only by my being able to hear his voice as I read. To actually hear him tell the tale of the bath-time caper was so very wonderful
An interesting memoir from film critic for The Guardian. Familiar story of life in post-war Britain, but engagingly told.
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