Richard Powers

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's …

Tout commence par une photo, désormais célèbre : celle prise par August Sander de trois fermiers sur une route de campagne à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Pourquoi cette photo obsède-t-elle tant le narrateur, depuis qu'il l'a vue par hasard dans un musée de Detroit ? Peter Mays, un jeune journaliste de …

Plowing the Dark is a novel by American writer Richard Powers. It follows two narrative threads; one of an American teacher turned Lebanese prisoner of war, the other the construction of a high-tech virtual reality simulator.

The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. 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 …

Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life. …

Le Temps où nous chantions est un roman de l'écrivain américain Richard Powers, publié aux États-Unis le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2003, traduit en français et publié en France en 2006 aux éditions du Cherche midi. Ce livre a été considéré comme le deuxième meilleur livre de l'année 2006 par le magazine littéraire Lire derrière Les …

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin - who looks, acts and sounds just like his sister - is really an …