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Subtitle in pre-publication: A memoir.
"Lightman's grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family's undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans to prominence in the South, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his children and grandchildren. In this ... memoir, the author chronicles his return to Memphis in an attempt to understand the origins he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts begin telling family stories, Lightman rediscovers his southern roots and slowly recognizes the errors in his perceptions of both his grandfather and his father, who was himself crushed by M.A."--Dust jacket flap.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307379399
0307379396
SUBJECTS
Lightman, Alan P., -- 1948-
Lightman, Alan P., -- 1948- -- Family.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography.