The Echo Maker (Signed & Dated + Extra)

Powers, Richard

ISBN 10: 0374146357 / ISBN 13: 9780374146351

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2006

About this Item

Winner of 2006 National Book Award for fiction. Book is tight, square & clean with a complete number line including "1" and has slight pushing to the superior inferior spine edges. DJ is price-intact ($25.00 ) with NO NBA Winner sticker on the front cover. Signed & Dated (04/14/10) on the verso of the loosely laid-in publishers bookplate commemorating the National Book Award for this book Author appeared at the University of Minnesota on 04/14/10. Mr. Powers told me he has NEVER signed on a book and never will. His is a VERY RARE signature. A program from the event included.

Seller Inventory # 002104

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Echo Maker (Signed & Dated + Extra)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374146357
• ISBN 13: 9780374146351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed & Dated on Book Plate

About this title

Synopsis

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman–who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister–is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.

Set against the Platte River's massive spring migrations–one of the greatest spectacles in nature–The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

The Echo Maker is the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.

About the Author

Richard Powers is the author of eight previous novels that have received numerous honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction.