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After crashing his truck and falling into a 14-day coma, Mark Schluter wakes up with Capgras Syndrome, and believes that his sister Karin has been replaced by an imposter. Devastated, Karin calls in a renowned neurologist to help. Meanwhile Schluter follows his sole lead, an anonymous note, in the hopes it will reveal the mystery of his condition and his inexplicable accident. Capgras Syndrome is a division of a person's intellectual and emotional understanding, but in his ninth novel Richard Powers once again proves he is equally adept at both sides of the equation: THE ECHO MAKER is full of rich ideas and powerful humanity. It is captivating and sorrowful.
| Size | | Length: | 451 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus...[Richard] Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms."
(10/22/2006)
"Richard Powers's new novel--a kind of neuro-cosmological adventure--is an exhilarating narrative feat. The ease with which the author controls his frequently complex material is sometimes as thrilling to watch as the unfolding of the story itself."
(10/08/2006)
"[Richard Powers'] philosophical musings have the energy of a thriller, and he give lyrical, haunting life to the landscape fo the Great Plains."
(11/06/2006)
"THE ECHO MAKER is a grand novel--grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand in its patterning."
(12/21/2006)
"[Richard Powers] masterfully charts the shifting dynamics of [his characters'] relationship, and his prose--powerful, but not overbearing--brings a sorrowful energy to every page."
(07/10/2006)
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