The Gold Bug Variations - Softcover

Powers, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784709727 ISBN 13: 9781784709723

Publisher: Vintage, 2019

Synopsis

An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory

Stuart Ressler, a brilliant biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes – social, moral, musical, spiritual – and he falls in love with a member of his research team.

Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different mystery – why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science?

Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.

‘A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth’ Sunday Telegraph

About this title

About the Author

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784709727
• ISBN 13: 9781784709723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688