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The Gold Bug Variations

Richard Powers

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company
  • Publish Date: Oct 5th, 2021
  • Pages: 768
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.44in - 1.36in - 1.21lb
  • EAN: 9780063140332
  • Categories: • Literary• Visionary & Metaphysical• Friendship

About the Author

Powers, Richard: - Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Praise for this book

"A dense, symmetrical symphony in which no note goes unsounded." -- New York Times Book Review

"Magnificent...Powers's characters are fascinating, brilliant, eccentric people...but beyond that is the ability to induce the reader to see the world differently, revealed in a new light." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"The Gold Bug Variations is the most important and intellectually challenging American novel published this year." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Eloquent and fascinating... The Gold Bug Variations is a rambling, playful, lush, vain, bold and mighty worthwhile lap breaker." -- Chicago Tribune

"Deeply enriching...challenging and original." -- Publishers Weekly