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Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.<b>A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth</b>. The plot is as labyrinthine as any by Umberto Eco... Extremely witty... Dip into this book at random and the chances are it will sit up and bite you like a rattlesnake
Sunday Telegraph
<b>The most lavishly ambitious American novel since <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i></b>... An outright marvel
Washington Post
<b><i>The Gold Bug Variations</i> has everything... </b><b>Stunning... Almost every sentence is a heroic tour de force</b>... The joy to be taken in reading the book is, like the pleasure of studying crystal multiplication, in seeing a pattern swarm mosaically over everything, watching a stencil laid over life
New York Times
<b>One of the best writers working now</b>
- Audrey Niffenegger,
Powers has triumphantly restored...the philosophical novel
Observer
An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory
Stuart Ressler, a brilliant 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 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.
‘A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth’ Sunday Telegraph