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false <![CDATA[The Shadow Catcher]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236389035m/230221.jpg 230221 4 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. 1485762 5 6 2007 The Shadow Catcher total:338|5:47|4:147|3:105|2:25|1:14| 338 1202 552 118 2 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 09:14:42 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 09:39:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 28 15:45:27 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 15:54:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 02 08:51:26 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 09:09:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 07:56:54 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 08:00:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 11:38:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 12:09:59 -0700 2008
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There were some small problems that I found very off-putting. At one po...more...]]> 4 0 true true Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 10:23:06 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 20:39:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 19:11:08 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 14:43:54 -0700 2008 One star or four? For me, this book was that u...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 12:54:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 11:31:13 -0700 2008
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