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Orfeo - Couverture souple

Powers, Richard

 
9780393349849: Orfeo
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0393349845 ISBN 13 : 9780393349849
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

* New York Times Bestseller * Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize * Longlisted for the National Book Award * The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers a novel at once magnificent and moving (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times)."

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

* New York Times Bestseller * Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize * Longlisted for the National Book Award * The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers a novel at once magnificent and moving (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times)."

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

"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," wrote Margaret Atwood (New York Review of Books). Indeed, since his debut in 1985 with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers has been astonishing readers with novels that are sweeping in range, dazzling in technique, and rich in their explorations of music, art, literature, and technology. In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els the "Bioterrorist Bach" pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey. Through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, Els hatches a plan to turn this disastrous collision with the security state into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them. The result is a novel that soars in spirit and language by a writer who may be America s most ambitious novelist (Kevin Berger, San Francisco Chronicle)."

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393349845
ISBN 13 
9780393349849
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
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Personne responsable
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