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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
A Novel
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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Narrado por:
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Stephen Hoye
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Dominic Smith
In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his “Doomsday List,” ten items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century.
Paris in 1847 was a city of Bohemian excess and social unrest. Into this strange and beguiling world, Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday images, with the help of the womanizing poet Baudelaire and a beautiful prostitute named Pigeon, in this moving story of ruined love, fame unraveling, and a prodigious mind coming undone.
©2006 Dominic Smith (P)2006 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Reseñas de la crítica
“Stephen Hoye narrates with joy and expertise. Here is listening intensity that makes the brain create an imaginary world that diminishes reality…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
(AudioFile)“Highly entertaining.”
(New York Times)“Smith renders a clear-eyed portrait of Daguerre and his thinking, against a backdrop of tumultuous times.”
(Publishers Weekly)“Smith’s beautifully written debut uses the life of photography’s inventor as the framework for a touching tale of youthful love regained in maturity…A compelling psychological study, a thoughtful tracing of the birth of a new art form, and an atmospheric portrait of nineteenth-century France: impressive on all three counts.”
(Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
