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A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the Best Books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant... Read Full Overview

This is Richard Powers' first novel since the much-heralded Prisoner's Dilemma, about which Maureen Howard wrote in The Nation: Magnificent. Set it up there in the stratosphere with the American novels we study like pictures in the sky. The lives of four researchers twist about... Read Full Overview