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The Gold Bug Variations
by Richard Powers
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Powers's almost dauntingly intellectual detective story is about a Midwestern molecular biologist who, in 1957, falls in love with a colleague and disappears. Twenty-five years later, a young couple tries to find him. The novel's title refers not only to Bach's Goldberg Variations but to Poe's story "The Gold Bug," both of which are elements of the plot.
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9780060975005,
Paperback,
Perennial,
1992
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9780688098919,
Hardcover,
Harpercollins,
1991
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Publisher Notes
A national bestseller, voted by Timeas the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.
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"[T]he most important and intellectually challenging American novel published this year."
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