Dominic Smith, Author . Atria $24 (306p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7114-1
Smith's clever but uneven debut novel peers into the mind of the eccentric 19th-century French genius who invented the daguerreotype. In 1846, the celebrated photographer Louis Daguerre, his brain addled by the mercury process that made him...
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Dominic Smith, Author . Atria $24 (329p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7123-3
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ollowing a car crash, Nathan Nelson, 17, is recovering from a two-week-long coma in July 1987. His father, Samuel, a physics professor at a Wisconsin college, wanted a genius for a son. Nathan, who narrates, has always been uninspired at best, but
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Dominic Smith. Washington Square, $15 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-439-19886-5
Smith's impressive third novel (after The Beautiful Miscellaneous) is an absorbing exploration of culture, tradition, and renewal through the high seas adventure of three very different men. In late 1890s Chicago, an insurance magnate contracts Owen
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Dominic Smith. FSG/Crichton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-10668-3
Smith’s (Bright and Distant Shores) novel centers on two women who live hundreds of years apart yet are inextricably linked. When Dutch artists Barent and Sara de Vos lose their daughter to the plague in 1635, the couple falls into emotional and...
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Dominic Smith, read by Edoardo Ballerini. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6825-9
The Dutch golden age is reimagined through a haunting landscape painting and three interwoven characters, timelines, and locales in this luminous audio adaptation of Smith’s novel. In 1636, while grieving the death of her young daughter, artist Sara
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Dominic Smith, Author, Michael Garcia, Read by , read by Paul Michael Garcia. Blackstone Audio $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-5785-3
Smith's novel of the painfully ordinary son of a brilliant scientist, and his sudden acquisition of marvelous powers of memory, is read by Garcia with a taste for melodrama. Garcia's melodramatic streak is understated, prodded less by...
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Dominic Smith. FSG/Crichton, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-14685-6
Smith (The Last Painting of Sara De Vos) takes readers back to the dawn of the motion picture era in his splendid latest. Claude Ballard is an old man in 1962, living at Hollywood’s Knickerbocker Hotel, when he’s contacted by Martin Embry, a PhD...
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Dominic Smith. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-60768-5
Smith (The Electric Hotel) unspools an intriguing saga of wartime promises and trauma. In 2011, widower Hugh Fisher leaves his home in Michigan for a sabbatical in Valetto, the Umbrian village of his deceased Anglo Italian mother, Hazel. There, he...
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