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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393240827

ISBN-139780393240825

eBay Product ID (ePID)166443175

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrfeo : a Novel

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorRichard Powers

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight23.7 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-031952

ReviewsPowers proves, once again, that he's a master of the novel with Orfeo, an engrossing and expansive read that is just as much a profile of a creative, obsessive man as it is an escape narrative., While it starts off with a thriller plotline--falsely accused bioterrorist on the run--Richard Powers's Orfeo constantly shifts gears., Orfeo benefits from the deep sympathy Powers seems to feel for the brilliant and troubled protagonist he has created...[It] establishes beyond any doubt that the novel is very much alive., Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter., Powers' writing is complex and heady without being head-achy, and his synesthetic descriptions of finding melodies in the mundane are full of their own kind of music., Orfeo reveals how a life, and the narrative of a life, accumulates, impossibly, infinitely, from every direction.... In this retelling of the Orpheus myth Powers also manages enchantment., For sheer bravado in constructing sentences, few authors of contemporary fiction can surpass Powers...One of his finest yet., Orfeo is that rare novel truly deserving of the label 'lyrical'.... Richard Powers offers a profound story whose delights are many and lasting., Powers is prodigiously talented, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life., Part of the fun of reading [Powers] is to see how he wriggles out of his own snares. But a greater thrill is to join with him in untangling the most urgent and confounding puzzles of our age., Powers's talent for translating avant-garde music into engrossing vignettes on the page is inexhaustible. Els's obsession with avant-garde, which isolates him from everyone he loves, becomes the very thing that aligns him with the reader., For sheer bravado in constructing sentences, few authors of contemporary fiction can surpass Powers., Orfeo is that rare novel truly deserving of the label 'lyrical'...Powers offers a profound story whose delights are many and lasting., The earmarks of the renowned novelist's work are here... but rarely have his novels been so tightly focused and emotionally compelling., Of novelists in Powers's generation with whom he is often compared--Franzen, Vollmann, Wallace--none equals Powers's combination of consistent production, intellectual range, formal ingenuity, and emotional effect., Powers deftly dramatizes the obsession that has defined Els's life: 'How did music trick the body into thinking it had a soul?'

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for The Man Booker PrizeLonglisted for the National Book AwardThe National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus., "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 )., "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)., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.