Description: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers "Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding." --Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Playground."A writer of blistering intellect . . . [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers." -- Richard Eder, Los Angeles TimesIn the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powerss brilliant and compelling novel.As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and offer the reader a glimpse into a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Review "A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy." -- Newsday"Americas most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in." -- San Francisco Chronicle"One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo." -- The Nation"Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walkers perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today." -- Chicago Tribune"Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working--Pynchon and DeLillo excepted--who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications." -- Esquire Review Quote "A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy." Details ISBN0063140217 Author Richard Powers Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0063140217 ISBN-13 9780063140219 Format Paperback Pages 416 Publication Date 2021-06-22 UK Release Date 2021-06-22 DEWEY 813.54 Audience General Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2021-06-22 Imprint US William Morrow Paperbacks Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138843140;
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