Thomas Thonson

You Don't Die of Love: Stories Thomas Thonson

You Don't Die of Love is the story of what happened to that generation of movie lovers that came of age in the early seventies. The first ones to go to film school and descend upon Hollywood with auteur dreams. It was the time of Raging Bulls and Easy Riders, a time when directors were superstars and the medium of film was beginning to seem like a revolutionary form of mass art. Of course that didn't last and not all of them went on to fame and fortune, but they did go on living.  This is that story.  A story of  losing your dreams and finding yourself, or vice versa.  Either way can bring disaster and usually does in this lively and inventive tale of lives gone awry.