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Dec 12, 2006 author richard powers richard powers recently won the national book award for his book the echo maker. Its obviously the product of a curious and interesting mind, and powers can write effectively and even eloquently in more than one register. His older sister karin, his only near kin, returns. According to richard powers, the aim in the echo maker is to put forward, at the same time, a glimpse of the solid, continuous, stable, perfect story we try to fashion about the world and about ourselves, while at the same time to lift the rug and glimpse the amorphous, improvised, messy, crackstrewn, gaping thing underneath all that narration. Online book the echo maker by richard powers italian. Apr 03, 2018 richard powers on the power of music to wake us up some of the characters moved by pattys revelatory research are inspired to more aggressive forms of environmental activism even ecoterrorism.
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