[bksvol-discuss] The Shadow CatcherLanguishes
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 02:55:37 -0800
Hi, Everyone,
About three weeks ago, I submitted the book "The Shadow Catcher" by Marianne
Wiggins. It is languishing on Step One.
It is a "literary" novel by an author who was once married to Solman Rushdie.
In a way, the narrative is slow-moving, but the prose is quite beautiful, and
the writing reminds me of Willa Cather's writing.
I scanned this book to read for a book group, so I have read every word,
stripped headers and protected page numbers. It should be an easy validation.
I hope someone wil give it a try. The synopsis is below:
Cat Lover Lori
the novel narrates episodes from the life of the photographer, Edward Curtis and
opens in Hollywood, where top producers are eager to sentimentalize his
complicated
life.Yet, contrary to Curtis's esteemed public reputation as servant to his
nation,
thenarrator discovers that this artist was an absent husband and disappearing
father.
In the next generation, the narrator'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, the narrator
amasses disparate clues to recover those moments that went unrecorded and chases
the silhouettes of collective history into the bright light of the present. This
novel was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
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