{"product_id":"the-film-club-paperback","title":"The Film Club - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Gilmour\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from \u003cem\u003eTrue Romance\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eRosemary's Baby\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eShowgirls\u003c\/em\u003e, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Gilmour\u003c\/b\u003e's sixth novel, \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Night to Go to China\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2005 Governor-General's Award for fiction in Canada and has been translated into Russian, French, Thai, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Serbian and Turkish. China and a previous book, \u003ci\u003eLost Between Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, were both nominated for Ontario's Trillium Book Award. His novels have been praised by visionaries from William Burroughs to Northrop Frye, and in publications ranging from \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gilmour worked for the Toronto International Film Festival before moving into a broadcasting career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) where he served as the national film critic for country's flagship news show, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He went on to host his own talk show on CBC's \u003ci\u003eNewsworld, Gilmour on the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Gemini Award. Gilmour's 5,000-word memoir of reading Tolstoy (\u003ci\u003eMy Life with Tolstoy\u003c\/i\u003e) appeared in last summer's issue of the \u003ci\u003eWalrus\u003c\/i\u003e magazine (the \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e of Canada) to huge response and acclaim.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52912538910944,"sku":"9780446199308","price":22.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/XMT72iSaIT9780446199308.webp?v=1781228993","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-film-club-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}