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　　David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives

us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child

in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of

the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and

upstairs tenant, Miss Davis. He remembers how his grandmother

brought him to a street corner to see Churchill and how the

bombed-out houses that still smelled of smoke became his

playground. We see Thomson attempt to overcome his profound sadness

at being abandonded by his cold and distant father by finding

solace in the cinema houses. Movies became his great escape,

and the worlds revealed in Red River, The Third Man, and

Citizen Kane helped to alleviate his loneliness and bolster

his rich imaginative life.

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　　David Thomson, author most recently of “Have You Seen . . .

?” is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The

Independent, The New York Times, Movieline, The New Republic,

and Salon.  He lives in San Francisco. 

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媒体评论

　　“The most intimate book yet from this most personal,

intellectually present of critics. . . . [An] eloquent, open-ended

memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review

　　“Honest, observant, and at times moving. . . . Try to Tell the

Story is a fine book, modest and self-effacing but also forthright

and uncompromising.” —Washington Post Book World

　　“Moving and provocative. . . . A vital exploration of how

England, America, and the arts . . . turned him from a seething

stammering school boy into an interpreter extraordinaire.”

—Newsday

　　“The wry, alert intelligence that has always marked David

Thomson’s film criticism is here brought to bear on the complex

narrative of his own life, and, with admirable compassion and

tenderness, on those closest to him who shaped it.  Rarely has

the unwilling achievement of maturity been as honestly, astutely,

or humbly reprised as in this haunting and deeply affecting

memoir.” —Phillip Lopate 

　　“Those of us who are struck by his balance of authority and wit

when it comes to celluloid have sometimes had cause to wonder where

and how David Thomson acquired his astonishing deadpan synthesis of

lightness of heart and extreme gravitas.  Well, now—and to

borrow an expression from his ancestral ‘hood—we bloody well know.”

—Christopher Hitchens

　　“Try to Tell the Story exists—like life—on the razor’s edge

between laughter and tears, bliss and heartbreak, confusion and

compassion.  It is full of marvelous riffs on movies, music,

and sports, but at heart it is an unashamedly tender, disarmingly

open attempt to understand the mystery, the complexity, and

sometimes insanity of family life.” —Douglas McGrath

书籍介绍

David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis. He remembers how his grandmother brought him to a street corner to see Churchill and how the bombed-out houses that still smelled of smoke became his playground. We see Thomson attempt to overcome his profound sadness at being abandonded by his cold and distant father by finding solace in the cinema houses. Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed in Red River, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane helped to alleviate his loneliness and bolster his rich imaginative life.