Orfeo (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice) - Hardcover

Powers, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410466906 ISBN 13: 9781410466907

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2014

Synopsis

An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid in this new novel from the award-winning author of Generosity. (general fiction). Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD POWERS is the author of ten novels. The Echo Maker won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.

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FACEBOOK: RICHARD POWERS

Review:

“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.”
- Publishers Weekly, Starred review

“Powers is prodigiously talented, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life.”
- Jim Holt, The New York Times Book Review

“The earmarks of the renowned novelist’s work are here... but rarely have his novels been so tightly focused and emotionally compelling.”
- Kirkus, Starred review

“Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter.”
- Heller McAlpin, NPR

“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.”
- Scott Korb, Slate

“Orfeo... establishes beyond any doubt that the novel is very much alive.”
- Troy Jollimore, Chicago Tribune

“Magnificent and moving.”
- David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times

“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.”
- Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books

“For sheer bravado in constructing sentences, few authors of contemporary fiction can surpass Powers...One of his finest yet.”
- Ted Gioia, The San Francisco Chronicle

“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.”
- Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1410466906
• ISBN 13: 9781410466907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 529