Synopsis
A double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of 25 years. The author also wrote "Prisoner's Dilemma" and "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance".
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A magnificent novel that probes the meaning of love, science, music and art, by the showstopping author of The Echo Makers. Reissued and rejacketed along with Powers' entire backlist.
'The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow... An outright marvel.' Washington Post
About the Author
RICHARD POWERS is the author of ten novels. The Echo Maker won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.
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