Richard Powers
Hardcover | Pages: 451 pages Rating: 3.39 | 8552 Users | 1349 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Echo Maker |
| Author | : | Richard Powers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 451 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2006 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published January 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Literature. Novels |
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Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of his accident.On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother’s refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
Set against the Platte River’s massive spring migrations – one of the greatest spectacles in nature – The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.
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| Original Title: | The Echo Maker |
| ISBN: | 0374146357 (ISBN13: 9780374146351) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.richardpowers.net/the-echo-maker/ |
| Characters: | Barbara Gillespie, Gerald Weber, Mark Schluter, Karin Schluter, Duane Cain, Tommy Rupp, Sylvie Weber, Bonnie Travis, Daniel Riegel |
| Setting: | Nebraska(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2007), National Book Award for Fiction (2006) |
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From a literary point of view, this rather is a disappointment: no sparkling prose, no warming story, no characters that you can or want to identify with, also no stylistic delights or ingenious changes in perspective, as in The Time of our Singing. This book seems conceptual and constructed, through and through, built around the problematic theme of self-image, the personal identity and how it is constructed by our brain. Powers in this book uses three characters: Mark Schluter, a typicalMy wife is such a sweetie. She saw that my job had me knee-deep in numbers and thought maybe Id appreciate more words in my life for ballast. With that in mind, she arranged for me to take an online writing class. We just started Week 2 Show, dont tell. One of the discussion prompts was to cite examples of a writer who shows particularly well. Turns out, I have a ready supply of quotable passages from books Ive been meaning (for too long) to review. The set I had for this one just about ran my
I will look back on this and see it as a mistake. I should not pass judgment on a book that I haven't finished, and should keep quiet about my displeasure with a novel that seems to be universally loved. I know (because it always happens) that I will look back and realize how dumb I am. Even so, I am fighting my way through Powers's writing. Is there anyone out there who feels the same? Is there no one who also feels that the writing comes off as amateurish and sentimental, and who is exhausted
This book stunk so badly that I left it on the seat of the train as I was leaving. A woman behind me said, "Excuse me, I think you left your book."And I said, "Yeah, I kind of wanted to leave my book, in hopes that someone else would come along and not hate it as much as I did."This book was long, boring, rambling and had one plot twist that was moderately interesting, but didn't show up until about page 400 (out of 450). Skip it. Seriously. Spend time reading a neurobiology book, or a book
Im going to try a different approach to this. Im going to toss out words or thoughts that come to me as I recall this novel.migratoryselfquestions of self, such as are we who we think we are, and the key word here is think. Does the conscious self come from within, or is it merely an echo?stories and narration do humans live the story, that is, do we need to see or hear something before we incorporate it into our own self. Powers uses the mockingbird to demonstrate this in the novel.is who we
This was my second time through this book, this time as part of a project to re-read all of Powers books in publication order, one per month for a year. As this is book number 9, there is a good body of work behind this that I have now read at least twice, plus some foreknowledge of what Powers will write after this one (I have read Generosity once and both Orfeo and The Overstory twice).Im a bit conflicted after completing this re-read of The Echo Maker. Somehow, it was simultaneously better
Having read this novel about memory loss nine years ago, my recollection isnt as sharp as it ought to be for a review, but having just read a 2014 mystery involving a complicated brain injury, this Powers book came to mind.As a retired geoscientist, any book with solid research into the sciences appeals to me (The Martian and The Demon in the Freezer, for example, were awesome reads for me). I love learning about neurology in particular, and the details Powers put into Mark's injury as well as
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