The Shadow Catcher

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
Cover of the book The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins, Simon & Schuster
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Marianne Wiggins ISBN: 9781416561835
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication: June 5, 2007
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Language: English
Author: Marianne Wiggins
ISBN: 9781416561835
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication: June 5, 2007
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Language: English

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 passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-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." The Shadow Catcher, fueled by the great American passions for love and land and family, chases the silhouettes of our collective history into the bright light of the present.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-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." The Shadow Catcher, fueled by the great American passions for love and land and family, chases the silhouettes of our collective history into the bright light of the present.

More books from Simon & Schuster

Cover of the book Devil's Gate by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Winger by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Girl in Snow by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book All Different Now by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book The Silo Effect by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Jack London in Paradise by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book The Big Umbrella by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Liberator by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Ernst Lubitsch by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Smile for the Camera by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Scarecrow Returns by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book Souped Up by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book The Eyes of Kid Midas by Marianne Wiggins
Cover of the book The Affair by Marianne Wiggins
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy