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The Gold Bug Variations
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Powers
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Romantic Literary Fiction,
- Science-in-Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Double helix love stories across decades and disciplines
- Science mysteries woven with music, art, and desire
National Bestseller | National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent 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 falls in love with a member of his research team.
Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery: Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.
The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.
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