Jon Michael Varese. (2018). The Spirit Photographer: A Novel. ABRAMS, Inc.

Jon Michael Varese. 2018. The Spirit Photographer: A Novel. ABRAMS, Inc.

Jon Michael Varese, The Spirit Photographer: A Novel. ABRAMS, Inc, 2018.

Jon Michael Varese. The Spirit Photographer: A Novel. ABRAMS, Inc, 2018.

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   • bioText: Jon Michael Varese is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently the Director of Public Outreach for The Dickens Project, and has lectured and written widely on nineteenth-century literature for several outlets, including the Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Spirit Photographer, a story that evolved from his work in nineteenth-century American history, is his first novel.
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A charlatan is haunted by sinister secrets and spirits from his past in this Gothic novel of the Reconstruction Era.
Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody has gained fame and fortune capturing the images of spirits in his photo portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. But his elaborate hoax is about to yield shocking results . . .
While attempting to capture the spirit of an abolitionist senator's young son, a different spectral figure develops before Moody's eyes. The camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman from Moody's past—the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago. He immediately sets out for the Louisiana bayou to resolve their unfinished business?and perhaps save his soul . . .

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     February 15, 2018
     A sprawling, intricately plotted debut novel that combines post-Civil War history with a kind of ghost story.The title character is one Edward Moody ((based on a real man named William Mumler), who worked for Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. Moody was devastated by the horrors he witnessed, and after the war he takes up spirit photography with great success. Clients sit for a photo portrait in Moody's Boston studio, and when the negative is developed, the image of a departed loved one somehow emerges in the background. Sen. James Garrett, a prominent abolitionist, reluctantly accompanies his wife, Elizabeth, for a sitting: She hopes to make a spiritual connection with their son, who died years before at age 3. But--shockingly--the image that surfaces behind the Garretts is that of a young woman of color named Isabelle, who, it turns out, was involved with both Moody and the senator. Moody is determined to find out what happened to Isabelle and launches a search; he is accompanied by Joseph Winter, an escaped slave-cum-Union Army veteran who has become his assistant and who also knew Isabelle. With the police on their heels--Moody is accused of being a charlatan--the two end up in the Louisiana bayou, where they begin to learn the truth about Isabelle and what she left behind. The writing is vivid, even lyrical at times, and the passages on Reconstruction--encapsulated in the prickly friendship between Garrett and the more conservative Sen. Dovehouse--are illuminating. The deep divide in the country circa 1870 is vaguely reminiscent of our own time. But the novel overheats, especially in the endless bayou section, and there are a few too many mystics and mediums on hand. Plus, the endless twists and turns become wearing.In part a meditation on belief, the book is mostly engaging despite being overlong and occasionally preposterous.

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     Starred review from March 1, 2018
     In the aftermath of the Civil War, Boston photographer Edward Moody makes a living by reuniting the grief-stricken with their lost loved ones in spirit photos. Having built up an impressive clientele, Moody next sets his sights on famed Senator Garrett and his wife, who lost their young son. But something goes wrong during their sitting, and the spirit in their photo seems there for Moody instead. It's Isabelle, the love of his life and a freed black woman, who disappeared, leaving only a letter promising to return. Even more bewildering is the reaction of the Garretts, who seem equally haunted. Now Moody must retrace Isabelle's past with the help of his new assistant, Joseph, who, mysteriously, also knew her. In between the overlapping lives that Isabelle touched lies danger, and Moody and Joseph must face their own demons to find the woman who saved them. Varese's unique first novel is set deep in the secrets of the postwar years, when the chains of slavery have vanished but an equally sinister underside to society remains. An entertaining amalgam of history and fiction, gothic and ghost story, The Spirit Photographer is an addicting tale.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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