
Orfeo
Richard Powers
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Description
In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab--the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns--has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive and hatches a plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it.
Product Details
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publish Date | September 02, 2014 |
Pages | 400 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780393349849 |
Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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Reviews
Orfeo is a first-class American road novel.--Scott Korb "Slate"
Orfeo is that rare novel truly deserving of the label 'lyrical.'...Powers offers a profound story whose delights are many and lasting.--Harvey Freedenberg "Minneapolis Star Tribune"
Biology and music, past and present, come together in a clever, explosive resolution.--Adam Kirsch "Boston Globe"
Extraordinary...his evocations of music, let alone lost love, simply soar off the page...Once again, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our finest novelists.--Dan Cryer "Newsday"
For sheer bravado in constructing sentences, few authors of contemporary fiction can surpass Powers...One of his finest yet.--Ted Gioia "San Francisco Chronicle"
Magnificent and moving.--David Ulin "Los Angeles Times"
Of novelists in Powers's generation with whom he is often compared--Franzen, Vollmann, Wallace--none equals Powers's combination of consistent production, intellectual range, formal ingenuity, and emotional effect.--Tom LeClair "Christian Science Monitor"
One long express-train ride to the gorgeous. And the scenery is as sublime as ever.--Laura Miller "Salon"
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 "New York Review of Books"
Powers is prodigiously talented...He writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life...I [was] unable to resist the emotional pull of Orfeo.--Jim Holt "New York Times Book Review"
Powers proves, once again, that he's a master of the novel with Orfeo, an engrossing and expansive read that is just as much a profile of a creative, obsessive man as it is an escape narrative.--Elizabeth Sile "Esquire"
Powers' writing is complex and heady without being headachy, and his synesthetic descriptions of finding melodies in the mundane are full of their own kind of music.-- "Entertainment Weekly"
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