The Gold Bug Variations

The Gold Bug Variations - Paperback

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The Gold Bug Variations - Paperback

The Gold Bug Variations - Paperback

by Richard Powers
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Book Overview

National Bestseller

National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground and The Overstory, 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.
ISBN9780063140332
Author Richard Powers
PublisherWilliam Morrow & Company
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages768
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Richard Powers

RICHARD POWERS is the author of a dozen novels, including The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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