· In that infectious enthusiasm, Orfeo is the equivalent in fiction of Alex Ross's history of 20th-century music, The Rest Is Noise. But whereas Ross's Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Orfeo. The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. “If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century he’d probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. · Orfeo is the 11th book by Richard Powers, who won the National Book Award for Fiction in W.W. Norton Powers is apparently incapable of writing a flat www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Richard Powers will be at the Edinburgh international book festival on 21 August. He will be at the London Review Bookshop, London WC1A, on 27 September. The Overstory is published by William. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter." ―Heller McAlpin, NPR. In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. That is our Powers Problem. Each new novel he produces becomes an occasion to ask whether this time, at last, he has succeeded in fusing ideas and life into an organic whole. In "Orfeo," the.
The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. Orfeo. The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. “If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century he’d probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. Orfeo is the 11th book by Richard Powers, who won the National Book Award for Fiction in W.W. Norton Powers is apparently incapable of writing a flat sentence.
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