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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Powers
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- World War I,
- Multi-Generational
This book is for you if you're into...
- Obsessions sparked by a single haunting photograph
- Stories that bridge WWI Europe and late 20th-century Boston
- Literary puzzles connecting strangers across a century
Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Richard Powers.
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel.
As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it.
The three stories connect in a surprising way and offer the reader a glimpse into a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.
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