

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
Author: Dominic Smith
Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/30/2009
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Dominic Smith
Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/30/2009
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Dominic Smith is the author of six novels, including The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, which was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was named a best book of the year by Slate, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The Australian, among other publications. He grew up in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
I’ll admit it. I cried. To write some back-cover copy, “This is a finely wrought tale of love lost, found, and then lost again.” And then misplaced somewhere in that damn garage. No, seriously, this is quite a lovely book. I chose The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre because I thought it was going t......more
Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. Also recognizes as one of the fathers of photography. Paris, 1847: Daguerre’s body is faltering, a byproduct of working with chemicals for more than a decade. Ho......more
A clever depiction of Louis Daguerre -- a historical figure -- set against the backdrop of an authentic 19th century France results in this alluring historical novel by emerging novelist Dominic Smith. The beauty of this piece is in the balance between the story -- about a man's obsession with captu......more
A love story at heart or should I say an unrequited love story set in the unrest and turmoil of 1800's Paris. Daguerre is at the end of his life and now famous for being the father of photographic invention, he looks back at his childhood love with melancholic fever but instead he finds her daughter......more
A moving story created around the life of Daguerre in the turbulent years surrounding Napoleon in France. The history and passionate pursuit of the creation of captured images, which lead to the discovery of photography, is a fascinating story. There is also a great sadness in this story as Louis sl......more