The Gold Bug Variations

ISBN: 0063140330

Author: Powers, Richard

Condition: New

National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravitys Rainbow . . . An outright marvel. -Washington PostStuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes-social, moral, musical, spiritual-and he falls in love with a member of his research team.Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery: Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.