The Gold Bug Variations.
Language: English
Published by Scribners, London, 1992
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Orpheus Books, Edmonds, WA, U.S.A.Orpheus Books
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First U.K. edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered boards. 639 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author's breakthrough book, a highly praised tour de force. Time Magazine's Book of the Year. Richard Powers was the Recipient of a 1989 MacArthur Genius Grant. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1999 Recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orfeo was Nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. The Overstory is the Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Bewilderment is shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Bewilderment is nominated for the 2021 National Book Award.
Seller Inventory # 13582-2
- Title
- The Gold Bug Variations.
- Author
- POWERS, Richard.
- Publisher
- Scribners, London
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0356206556
- ISBN 13
- 9780356206554
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 4 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Alternative History, Fiction, Literature
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Book Description
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
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