Screening Room: A Memoir of the South

by Alan Lightman

Book Overview

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - Alan Lightman's grandfather M.A. was the family's undisputed patriarch. It was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant family, to prominence in the South; his triumphs that would both galvanize and paralyze his descendants.

In this evocative personal history, the author chronicles his return to Memphis and the stifling home he had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307739848
• ISBN13: 9780307739841
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"