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This is a work whose power is incremental, whose shadow-America is elaborated step by step. The closest comparison I can think of are the fabulations of Steve Erickson--also obsessed with Hollywood and the myths its country makes about itself. .. . If it only tells us about Hollywood and its dreams, that's because they're our dreams too. --Strange Horizons on Suspects A dazzling work of narrative invention. --Village Voice on Suspects If The Biographical Dictionary of Film allows David Thomson to flex his scholarly muscles then Suspects provides the English-born author a vehicle for his passionate admiration of the stories America tells about itself. --Pop Matters on Suspects The peculiar combination of hype and history that forms the instant myth of the West is the matrix of this engrossing fiction, in which Mr. Thomson combines real characters with those of his own invention, an amalgam as tantalizing as that in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime. . . . With its rich, handsome prose, this is a book to savor. --New York Times on Silver Light Thomson's rangy metafictional collage blends figures from history and legend as well as characters from Hollywood films in an endlessly inventive cinematic meditation on the American West. . . Artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul. --Publishers Weekly on Silver Light