Bibliograph

Key grip, a memoir of endless consequences, Dustin Beall Smith

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Label

Key grip, a memoir of endless consequences, Dustin Beall Smith

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Key grip

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Dustin Beall Smith

Review

"A key grip, Dustin Beall Smith explains in this award-winning debut memoir, is the person on a film set who supervises the rigging of lights, set wall construction, dolly shots, stunt preparation, and more. Smith worked in the film industry throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. For him, "fame by association" - with iconic stars including Sly Stallone, Susan Sarandon, and Robert De Niro - was just one of the seductive drugs fueling his high-octane days on the set." "The intertwined stories in Key Grip resurrect memories of how his father's impossibly ordered life became a goad for Smith's own reckless passage to manhood. Its trajectory includes a stint as a pioneering sport-parachuting instructor in the late 1950s - a young man's dream job that taught Smith how to hide sheer animal fear behind male bravado. Much later, as a committed writer and unredeemed seeker in his fifties, Smith lights out cross-country for what turns out to be a brave, existentially failed - and very funny - attempt at a Lakota vision quest."--BOOK JACKET

Sub title

a memoir of endless consequences

Table Of Contents

Starting at the bottom again -- Just pears -- Meeting at the water's edge -- The pipe -- One day -- Leaving the garden -- When you finish your beer -- Jump -- Grace -- No feeling of falling -- The long road -- The second person

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