LOVE FOR LIVRES

Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.

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The time of our singing

Richard Powers - Publisher : Picador (imprint)

The book tells the story of two brothers involved in music, dealing heavily with issues of prejudice. Their parents met at Marian Anderson's concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she had been barred from any other legitimate concert venue. The story goes back and forth between the generations describing the unusual coupling of a German-Jewish physicist who has lost his family in the...
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During my holidays	Winter	To my male lover	Not easy to read	Contemporary	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

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The overstory

Richard Powers - Publisher : Penguin Group

Publisher`s presentation : A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures...
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To not die of boredom	Summer	To my colleagues	Easy to read	Contemporary	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

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