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The Gold Bug Variations - by Richard Powers (Paperback)

The Gold Bug Variations - by  Richard Powers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>National Bestseller</strong></p> <p><strong>National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee</strong></p> <p><strong>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Overstory </em>and the forthcoming <em>Bewilderment</em>, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. </strong></p> <p><strong>"The most lavishly ambitious American novel since <em>Gravity's Rainbow</em> . . . An outright marvel." --<em>Washington Post</em></strong><br/><br/>Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular 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. </p> <p>Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific 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.</p> <p>The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers, <em>The Gold Bug Variations</em> is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<em>The Gold Bug Variations </em>is the most important and intellectually challenging American novel published this year." --<em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em><br><br>"A dense, symmetrical symphony in which no note goes unsounded." --<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"Deeply enriching...challenging and original." --<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Eloquent and fascinating...<em> The Gold Bug Variations </em>is a rambling, playful, lush, vain, bold and mighty worthwhile lap breaker."--<em>Chicago Tribune</em><br><br>"Magnificent...Powers's characters are fascinating, brilliant, eccentric people...but beyond that is the ability to induce the reader to see the world differently, revealed in a new light." --<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br>

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