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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT

by RichardPowers (Author)

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Synopsis

Richard Powers is one of the foremost talents of contemporary American literature, winner of the 2006 US National Book Award, and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 May 2010
ISBN 10: 1848871406
ISBN 13: 9781848871403
Book Overview: The backlist of Richard Powers, one of America's most important novelists, moves to Atlantic Books. On the eve of World War One, three young men are captured by photographer August Sander. Looking at the camera, dressed in suits against a background of an empty field, they become an iconic image. But what happens to these men after the shutter falls and how is the story of an enduring image influenced by forgotten histories? A novel of obsession in the age of technology.

Media Reviews

Praise for Richard Powers:

'If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century... he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big.' Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books

'Nothing less than brilliant' John Updike

'A writer of blistering intellect... [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers.' Los Angeles Times

'There is no contemporary American writer quite like Richard Powers...It is rare to find a novel as intellectually and emotionally engaging as this.' Guardian

'A wonderful song of triumph...In the American literary world, Richard Powers' name is spoken of in the same breath as Don Delillo and Jonathan Franzen...The Time of Our Singing is a resounding affirmation of how much the modern novel can contain.' Glasgow Herald

'One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo.'

* The Nation *
Author Bio
Richard Powers has been a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as a winner of the US National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of nine novels, most recently Generosity (Atlantic Books, 2010). He lives in Los Angeles.