Echo Maker by Richard Powers
	List Price:   $15.00 Unit Price:   $12.00 You Save:   $3.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0312426437 ISBN-13:   9780312426439 Publisher:   Picador Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   August 2007 Pages:   451 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS_FICTION
Description/Notes
Winner of the 2006 National Book Award nbsp; The Echo Makeris 'a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it' (Booklist,starred review). nbsp; On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. InThe Echo Maker,Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists. 'A grand novel--grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand in it patterning . . . If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century . . . he'd probably be the Herman Melville ofMoby-Dick. His picture is that big.'--Margaret Atwood,The New York Review of Books nbsp; 'A brilliant novel . . . A vision of wonder.'--The Boston Globe nbsp; 'Fascinating . . . In the end we see what Powers, with his beautiful language and broad reach, always wishes to have us see: the eternal mystery of human personality and how it functions in the extreme drama of the modern world.'--O, The Oprah Magazine nbsp; 'A kind of neuro-cosmological adventure . . . an exhilarating narrative feat . . . Powers is a formidable talent, and this is a lucid, fiercely entertaining novel.'--The Washington Post Book World nbsp; 'A wise and elegant post-9/11 novel . . . The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition. . . . Powers accomplishes something magnificent.'--Colson Whitehead,The New York Times Book Review nbsp; 'Powers may well be one of the smartest novelists now writing. . . . InThe Echo Maker,Powers hopes to plumb the nature of consciousness, and he does so with such alert passion that we come to recognize in his quest the novel's abiding theme--What it means to be human will forever elude us.'--Los Angeles Times Book Review nbsp; 'One of the year's most engrossing.'--Entertainment Weekly nbsp; '[Powers's] characters are unforgettable, flesh-and-blood individuals as finely drawn as those of any contemporary fiction writer.'--Steve Weinberg,The Seattle Times On a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. When he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an identical impostor. Praise for Richard Powers: 'Powers may be America's most ambitious novelist.' --Kevin Berger, 'San Francisco Chronicle Book Review''' 'To read his work is to be wowed by his verbal muscularity. . .admirable. . .wonderfully original.' --Meg Wolitzer, 'The New York Times Book Review''' 'Richard Powers is the child prodigy of American fiction . . . by 34 he had published three novels equaling the intellectual rigor and range of that '60s prodigy, Thomas Pynchon.' --Tom LeClair, 'USA Today''' 'One of our few indispensable literary talents.' --Charles B. Harris, 'Review of Contemporary Fiction' 'Powers may be the smartest novelist writing today.' --Albert Mobilio, 'The Village'