The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins audiobook

The Shadow Catcher

By Marianne Wiggins
Read by Bernadette Dunne

Blackstone Publishing 9780743265201

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9780792748939

Runtime: 9.35 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Fiction

A 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction

A 2007 Los Angeles Times Best Book for Fiction

A 2007 Washington Post Best Book for Fiction

A 2007 Chicago Tribune Book of the Year for Fiction

A 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for Fiction

A 2007 Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year for Fiction

A 2007 Publishers Weekly Best Book for Fiction

A brilliant, complex, and layered story, The Shadow Catcher takes its title from the name bestowed upon Edward Curtis by the American Indians when he showed them photographs of themselves. In this remarkable novel, Wiggins weaves parallel tales of this famous artist and an unsung soldier, husband, and father. With its vast Western landscape and Wiggins' mesmerizing first-person narration, The Shadow Catcher calls to mind the best of the exploring, voyaging writers—Twain, Melville, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Marianne Wiggins is one of our most adventuresome and enterprising novelists…her style is seductive and alluring…The Shadow Catcher is both mesmerizing and convincing.” —Los Angeles Times
“The best book of the year is the arch and luminous Marianne Wiggins novel The Shadow Catcher…an old-fashioned detective story with a gung-ho narrative momentum. Along the way, The Shadow Catcher manages to wax sagacious about families, the American West, death, time, memory, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the rise of photography as the chief medium by which we now know the world—or think we do, that is…Be glad you live in a world that includes this prickly, magnificent novel.” —Chicago Tribune
“According to conventional wisdom, a picture is worth roughly a thousand words. In The Shadow Catcher, the assessed value is considerably higher. And what words they are.” —Christian Science Monitor
“Curtis emerges as a fascinating, complex figure, one who inhabited any number of American contradictions. Suffused with Marianne’s crackling social commentary and deceptively breezy self-discovery, Wiggins’s eighth novel is a heartfelt tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Wiggins is a writer who paints elegant pictures with words…[With] insights, realistic pathos, and human situations, this creative novel will not disappoint.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Bernadette Dunne is a superb narrator for this enigmatic novel…Dunne is also expert at voicing accents without resorting to stereotypes, creating authentic Native American and Mexican characters.” —AudioFile
“Thought-provoking takes on truth, myth, and the need to escape.” —Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Marianne Wiggins

Author Bio: Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins is the author of several books of fiction including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she has been a finalist for many awards, including the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 9.35
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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