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The Gold Bug Variations: From the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author - Softcover

Powers, Richard

 
9781804951743: The Gold Bug Variations: From the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author

Synopsis

'A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Powers has triumphantly restored ... the philosophical novel' OBSERVER

'A heroic tour de force' NEW YORK TIMES


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

Years later, another young man and woman investigate a different mystery: why did the promising Ressler suddenly vanish from the world of science?

Strand by strand, these two love stories intertwine in a double helix of desire in an enthralling tale about new love and the mysteries of science.

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About the Author

Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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