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Author:

Powers, Richard, 1957-

Title:

Orfeo : a novel / Richard Powers.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Composers--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Genetic engineering--Fiction.
Musical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Summary:

Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them.

ISBN:

0393240827 (hardcover)
9780393240825 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2013031952

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