A novel which follows the lives of four scientific researchers as they twist about each other in a double helix of desire, weaving intricately through the themes of music, science, language and love. By the author of "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" and "Prisoner's Dilemma".
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, ...
A history of the fictional Clare Soap and Chemical Company that is also a history of America. The story revolves around Laura Bodey, a real estate broker who blames a malignant ovarian cyst on the company that dominates her small Illinois town. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
The fictional protagonist, Richard Powers, becomes involved with Philip Lentz and his scheme to train a neural net on a canonical list of great books until the machine is capable of passing an English literature exam. As the device grows, Powers is forced to reconsider his literary vocation.
A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted--and divided--family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. "The Time of Our Singing" is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.
A photograph taken by German photographer August Sander of three young men on their way to a country dance at the beginning of World War I is the inspiration for three interrelated stories in this first novel which was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...Adie ...
Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, thousands of FBI files, interviews with former agents, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers reveals a man of inalterable ideals and convictions who clung to a private vision of an orderly, traditional America, and who vowed to crush anyone who threatened it.
The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of right-wing hysteria that deeply scarred American society and institutions. This book restores the struggle against communism to its place in American life.
A history of the fictional Clare Soap and Chemical Company that is also a history of America. The story revolves around Laura Bodey, a real estate broker who blames a malignant ovarian cyst on the company that dominates her small Illinois town. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Tired and overworked, Dr Richard Kraft has wrapped himself in a hard shell of professional competence in his paediatric ward. This shell shatters when he meets a beautiful young physiotherapist who helps him view the ward as a surrogate family. By the author of "The Gold Bug Variations".
This ingeniously useful compendium--organized to suit whatever time that the reader has available at that moment--offers reading material to fill those gray, in-between moments in life with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan , chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it was adversely affected political decisions and events, ...
Edward Hobson, a history teacher, is having fainting spells, but he refuses to see a doctor. Instead, he works on his secret project, which he claims will save not only Eddie Hobson, but the world.
The FBI is romanticized, feared, criticized and admired. Because of its strong impact on American public life, it is the focus of interest and research by students and professionals studying history, politics, law, criminal justice and law enforcement. This is a complete reference work on this powerful organization. This new guide focuses on the ...
Pathways to Spiritual Understanding is an all-in-one textbook, reference book and study guide that enables you to recognize even more of God's guiding hand in your life. The uncommon appeal of this unusual Bible study lies in its extraordinary ability to lay a solid foundation for helping you grow in faith. In it you'll find a treasure of ...
An experiential walk through the city and countryside of several continents, listening, watching and replying to birds. Powers brings a musician's ear and the delight in language and oral communication of a poet and Renaissance scholar to the question "What are bids saying when they talk to one another?".
From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Echo Maker" comes a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene. Funny, fast, and magical, "Generosity" celebrates both science and the freed imagination.
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The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953
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Paris Review, George Plimpton (Introduction by)
