From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science
Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), The Echo Maker, The Time of Our Singing, Galatea 2.2 and Plowing the Dark. He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a Pulitzer Prize and four-time NBCC finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
"A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet
anchored in emotional truth. The plot is as labyrinthine as any by
Umberto Eco... Extremely witty... Dip into this book at random and
the chances are it will sit up and bite you like a rattlesnake" *
Sunday Telegraph *
"The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's
Rainbow... An outright marvel" * Washington Post *
"The Gold Bug Variations has everything... Stunning... Almost every
sentence is a heroic tour de force... The joy to be taken in
reading the book is, like the pleasure of studying crystal
multiplication, in seeing a pattern swarm mosaically over
everything, watching a stencil laid over life" * New York Times
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"One of the best writers working now" -- Audrey Niffenegger
"Powers has triumphantly restored...the philosophical novel" *
Observer *
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