The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
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The Shadow Catcher

Author: Marianne Wiggins

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2007

Synopsis

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.

About 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.

About Bernadette Dunne

Bernadette Dunne has been honored to narrate the work of some of the finest fiction and nonfiction writers of our time, including Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and a three-time Audie Award nominee, she has voiced countless bestsellers, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Devil Wears Prada, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She studied at The Royal National Theater and lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by L

This is an amazing novel. Wiggins writes about, well, Wiggins researching and writing about Edward Curtis, 20th century photographer of landscapes and Native Americans. Wiggins the character wants to tell (or at least know) an honest story, one that is in rather direct conflict with the "official" s......more

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“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

Awards

  • Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year
  • Washington Post Best Book
  • Los Angeles Times Best Book
  • Chicago Tribune Book of the Year
  • San Francisco Chronicle Best Book
  • Publishers Weekly Best Book
  • National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
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