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A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award 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. His picture is that big," wrote Margaret Atwood (New York Review of Books). Indeed, since his debut in 1985 with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers has been astonishing readers with novels that are sweeping in range, dazzling in technique, and rich in their explorations of music, art, literature, and technology. In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present.



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Richard Powers

has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, , won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.



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