Orfeo by Richard Powers
A major and thrilling new novel that explores private fears, public hysteria and the art of music, by one of America's most important living writers
Orfeo has a galloping finale that is sweet, funny, sad and haunting all at once.. A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel * Guardian *
Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful * Independent on Sunday *
This is the best novel about classical music that I have read since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus... There are passages that make you want to run to your stereo * Independent *
A virtuoso performance * Sunday Times *
A magnificent and moving novel * Los Angeles Times *
Powers is prodigiously talented. Besides being fearfully erudite, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life... I [picked] it up eagerly each day and [found] myself moist-eyed when I came to its last pages * New York Times *
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 * Newsday *
Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful * Independent on Sunday *
This is the best novel about classical music that I have read since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus... There are passages that make you want to run to your stereo * Independent *
A virtuoso performance * Sunday Times *
A magnificent and moving novel * Los Angeles Times *
Powers is prodigiously talented. Besides being fearfully erudite, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life... I [picked] it up eagerly each day and [found] myself moist-eyed when I came to its last pages * New York Times *
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 * Newsday *
Richard Powers has been a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as a winner of the US National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of eight novels, including The Time of our Singing, Plowing the Dark, and Gain. He lives in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782391616 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782391614 |
| Title | Orfeo |
| Author | Richard Powers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2014-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2014 (UK), Long-listed for FOLIO PRIZE 2014 (UK), Long-listed for IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 (UK) |
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