The Gold Bug Variations |
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| Authors: | Powers, Richard |
| Publisher: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC071000, FIC019000, FIC039000 |
| ISBN: | 9780063119420, Related ISBNs: 0063119420, 9780060975005, 9780063119420, 9780063140332 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 768, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
National Bestseller
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.
“The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity’s Rainbow . . . An outright marvel.” —Washington Post
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.
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.
The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.
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