The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Smith, Dominic
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Smith, Dominic

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

The debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de...
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Author: Dominic Smith
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Smith, Dominic

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

$45.71
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Smith, Dominic

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

$45.71
Author: Dominic Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos reimagines the life of Louis Daguerre, the inventor of photography, who becomes convinced that the world is going to end when his mind unravels due to mercury poisoning. He is determined to reconnect with the only woman he has ever loved before the End comes.Louis Daguerre's story is set against the backdrop of a Paris prone to bohemian excess and social unrest. Poets and dandies debate art and style in the cafes while students and rebels fill the garrets with revolutionary talk and gun smoke. It is here, amid this strange and beguiling setting, that Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday subjects. Louis enlists the help of the womanizing poet Charles Baudelaire, known to the salon set as the "Prince of Clouds" and a jaded but beautiful prostitute named Pigeon. Together they scour the Paris underworld for images worthy of Daguerre's list. But Louis is also confronted by a chance to reunite with the only woman he's ever loved. Half a lifetime ago, Isobel Le Fournier kissed Louis Daguerre in a wine cave outside of Orleans. The result was a proposal, a rejection, and a misunderstanding that outlasted three kings and an emperor. Now, in the countdown to his apocalypse, Louis wants to understand why he has carried the memory of that kiss for so long.

Author: Dominic Smith
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 01/09/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.28w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780743271240

About the Author
Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly.

His awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. In 2006, his debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Dominic serves on the fiction faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University. Find out more at www.dominicsmith.net.
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