
Screening Room
From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein''s Dreams, here is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost continues to haunt the family.
Alan Lightman''s grandfather M. A. Lightman was the family''s undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapu...
From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein''s Dreams, here is a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose ghost continues to haunt the family.
Alan Lightman''s grandfather M. A. Lightman was the family''s undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapu...