Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Powers, Richard

ISBN 10: 0688042015 / ISBN 13: 9780688042011

Published by Morrow/Avon, 1985

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normal edgewear o/w contents are clean----------author 's first book-------------photographer August Sander captures on camera three young men in the last moments before World War 1 that connect years later. Seller Inventory # 001630

Bibliographic Details

Title: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Publisher: Morrow/Avon

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

A photograph of three young men walking along a road in Germany just before World War I imspires one man to attempt to penetrate the photograph's mystery through research and prompts another man to a personal quest

Review:

Praise for Richard Powers: '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.' Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books 'Nothing less than brilliant' John Updike 'A writer of blistering intellect... [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers.' Los Angeles Times 'There is no contemporary American writer quite like Richard Powers...It is rare to find a novel as intellectually and emotionally engaging as this.' Guardian 'A wonderful song of triumph...In the American literary world, Richard Powers' name is spoken of in the same breath as Don Delillo and Jonathan Franzen...The Time of Our Singing is a resounding affirmation of how much the modern novel can contain.' Glasgow Herald 'One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo.' * The Nation *