Orfeo
If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century...he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big, wrote Margaret Atwood (New York Review of Books). Indeed, since his debut in 1985 with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers has been astonishing readers with novels that are sweeping in range, dazzling in technique, and rich in their explorations of music, art, literature, and technology.In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiolog…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-24082-5
- EAN: 9780393240825
- Produktnummer: 14929157
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 369 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.5 cm 682 g
- Gewicht: 682
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Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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