Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Autor Richard Powersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2001
The critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofThe Overstoryand the forthcomingBewilderment.
“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 Times
In 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 Powers’s 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060975098
ISBN-10: 0060975091
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Harperperennial.
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN-10: 0060975091
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Harperperennial.
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
Textul de pe ultima copertă
In
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
Powers's
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
provide
the
reader
with
a
mystery
that
spans
a
century
of
brutality
and
progress.
Recenzii
"A
scintillating,
high-octane
intellectual
flight
of
fancy."
"America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in."
"One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo."
"Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today."
"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."
"America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in."
"One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo."
"Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today."
"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."
Notă biografică
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.