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Triumphantly true to form, Powers continues the densely layered and intricate plotting found in his earlier novels (Prisoner's Dilemma, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance) in this stunning epic that delves into molecular genetics, music, and information science, eloquently combining the mysteries of love and the passionate pursuit of knowledge. In a manner reminiscent of A.S. Byatt's Possession, a capable young reference librarian renews her sense of purpose as she and a computer technician/art-historian come together in seeking to recover the past of his co-worker Stuart Ressler, a brilliant older man wasting his talents as the night supervisor in a Brooklyn data- processing facility--and soon unmasked as one of the brightest hopes in genetics in the 1950's who vanished from the field after a promising start. The interweaving threads of narrative reconstruct a tragic affair between Ressler the scientist and a married colleague; a similarly electrifying and devastating relationship between the two sleuths; the perilous path of science as it grapples with the fundamental patterns of life; and the librarian's own obsession with the secrets of genetic coding, initiated in despair after learning of Ressler's death from cancer. Ranging in detail from genetic formulas to musical ones (with the title a typically witty reference to both Bach's variations and the Poe short story), replete with scintillating characters, especially the oddball team of scientists gathered to crack the code on a midwestern campus in the 50's, and structurally as well-tempered as a Bach fugue, the harmonious interplay between personal and scientific drama is both challenging and exquisite. A formidable masterpiece, deeply vital and sparkling in its many facets, whimsical in its prose yet precise in its elucidation- -rewarding in every sense but, in particular, a profoundly moving love story. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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If you don't get the title's allusive pun (to Robbins's Goldberg Variations), you won't get far into this long, densely textured, multi-referential, and brilliant novel. It demands that a reader make connections between such diversities as the genetic code and musical notation, Flemish art and biological nomenclature, the logic of computer systems and the Dewey decimal classification, cartography and chemistry. Making such connections--deciphering the encrypted messages of our world--is the great single quest in this novel of multiple searches. There is a rudimentary plot: a pair of love stories, separated by 25 years, entwined one round the other, but the real story here, its great treasure hunt, is the search to break the code unlocking the secret of life. This won't be one of the summer's hottest best sellers, but it is one of the year's best books, a grand encyclopedic novel akin to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow or Joseph McElroy's Lookout Cartridge . A previous novel by Powers, Three Farmers on the Way to a Dance ( LJ 9/15/85), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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I'd known about this book, but as a biologist, I had my doubts about a "mere" novelist being able to weave genetics, evolution, music, love, and who-knows-what-all into an interesting story. I bought it because it is "recommended" and I was going through one of those phases. I've never been more favorable impressed. I don't 'dog-ear' novels very often, but I did this one. Time and again Powers manages to make sense and beauty out of the dry matter of amino acids. If you want to know about the recent mapping of the human genome and what the personal and cultural implications of this leap forward are, I can do no better than to recommend this book.
Powers weaves two (at least) stories together in a manner which left me wanting more and more. This is a big hefty book and, to my mind, only about half as long as I would have liked it to be. I was caught up in both stories and spend hours looking up the references to make sure the author "had it right." He does, on all levels. Read this book!
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A brilliant novel about love, science, music, and the complexity of the human condition. Powers explores our impulse to unravel the mysteries around us (whether cracking the genetic code or excavating the narrative of the enigmatic Dr. Ressler) and our unrelenting impulse towards expression: artistic, verbal, and yes, physical. I'm in full agreement with the reader from Ohio: this is a passionate book. The characters are full-bodied, complex, and driven by a wide spectrum of desires, including love for eachother and for their intellectual pursuits. The prose is amazing, so keep a pen handy while you read if you're in the habit of marking passages you like.
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Richard Powers is a treasure. In a parallel with J.S. Bach and his Art of the Fugue, Powers is showing us by example just what the novel is capable of expressing. "Gold Bug" is a big book full of big ideas. There is abundant wordplay and every plot turn is placed as delicately as a piece in a jigsaw puzzle. Ultimately, the book is about the redemptive power of love. What a treat to open my mind to a storyteller as gifted as Richard Powers!
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I'm ashamed I had to give this dreck a star.
One of the worst novels I have ever read. Tedious without being insightful into any of the million and one topics it goes on and on about, this 'book' (I refer to it with such... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2000 von R Moore
Boring
I finally gave up about half way through the book. It is simply not worth the effort. Powers is undoubtedly a brilliant man, but he doesn't need to demonstrate it in every... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. März 2000 veröffentlicht
A stunning mixture of science and literature
The best of Powers' works to date, "Gold Bug Variations" is exhaustively structured, exhaustively researched, and exhaustively detailed -- but well worth your investment... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Februar 2000 von David Louis Edelman
One of the great novels of this era
What can I say? I was transported by this book. I marvel at the complexity of its design. At the poetry of its prose (I actually reformatted a passage as poetry, sent it to a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2000 von J Scott Morrison
But it wasn't enjoyable.
Despite my fasciation with the composition that inspired this book, and admiration for the author's fine use of prose, my sense is that this novel remains a tour de force of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1999 veröffentlicht
But it wasn't enjoyable.
Despite my fascination with the composition that inspired this book, and admiration for the author's fine use of prose, my sense is that this novel remains a tour de force of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Help for Santa Cruz
I can't say for sure, but what I heard about the "code" on the first page is that it's the dedication of the book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. September 1999 veröffentlicht
Powers is worth the intellectual effort involved.
This is one of my favorite novels, by one of my favorite authors. It reminded me of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which had a great deal of influence on me... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. September 1999 veröffentlicht
I loved it, but I need some help!
Like all of the above, I loved the book. Naturally. Richard Powers probably invests more time, intellectual care and loving attention on his grocery lists than most authors do on... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A book that I will never forget, and will never be sick of
In this book, Richard Powers is able to capture both a complex world of science as well as the wonderful yet destructive power of love. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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