The Shadow Catcher
A Novel
$40.24
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2008
Summary
Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy.
The Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught pas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743265218 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743265211 |
| Author: | Marianne Wiggins |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 353g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 140mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance…close to prophetic brilliance.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Wiggins writes with a feverish brilliance…close to prophetic brilliance.”
– Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Marianne Wiggins dares to make fictions that stand in the face of heart-cracking circumstance, fictions that, in fact, resound with hearts shattering.”
– The Washington Post Book World
“The author can make you weep in a single sentence…The events and relationships are rendered on the page with an immediacy that catches you up short.”
– The Boston Globe
“Wiggins is a writer of substantial gifts.”
– The New York Times Book Review
“Marianne Wiggins does not so much tell a story as make her reader live it…She renews our sense of what prose fiction can do.”
– The Sunday Times (London)
“Marianne Wiggins has…a passion to hurl herself into a continental unknown, to seek, misstep, recover and push on, while noticing every blade of grass along the way…the mark of a true epic endeavor.”
– The New York Times
About The Author
Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
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