The shadow catcher / Marianne Wiggins
Material type: TextSeries: Large print booksPublication details: Detroit : Thomson Gale , 2007.Description: 453 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780786298525
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Large print book | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | LARP FIC WIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 044932 |
"The Shadow Catcher inhabits the space where past and present intersect, interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a twenty-first-century journey of redemption." "Narrated in the first person by a reimagined writer named Marianne Wiggins, the novel begins in Hollywood, where top producers are eager to sentimentalize the complicated life of Edward Curtis as a sunny biopic: "It's got the outdoors. It's got adventure. It's got the do-good element." Yet, contrary to Curtis's esteemed public reputation as servant to his nation, the artist was an absent husband and disappearing father. Jump to the next generation, when Marianne's own father, John Wiggins (1920-1970), would live and die in equal thrall to the impulse of wanderlust." "Were the two men running from or running to? Dodging the false beacons of memory and legend, Marianne amasses disparate clues - photographs and hospital records, newspaper clippings and a rare white turquoise bracelet - to recover those moments that went unrecorded, "to hear the words only the silent ones can speak.""--BOOK JACKET.
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