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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Three Farmers on Their Way to a Danceby Richard Powers
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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's 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. Review:"The time of the photograph of the three farmers (the frontispiece of this book) is May 1, 1914. The photographer is August Sander. The book is called a novel, and all that is in it is not fact. Nevertheless, this is more a treatise on war, the dance of death, that weaves back and forth between 1914 and the present and manages to bring in, in one way or another, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Ford as well as assorted soldiers and civilians. Powers sums up his book best when he writes: 'There is no way around the memory of the First War, that dance lying just to the right of the photo's frame. There is only going through it.' That is just what Powers does, thoroughly." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review) Review:"An obsessive, witty, moving, often electrifying whale of a book about nothing less than the twentieth century."(--Kirkus Reviews) Review:?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.?(--Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times) Review:"Fiercely original, formally brilliant, deeply moving."(--Illinois Times) Review:?One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo.?(--Gerald Howard, The Nation) Review:?Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today.?(--Melvin Jules Bukiet, The Chicago Tribune) About the AuthorRichard Powers is a MacArthur Fellow. He lives in Urbana, Illinois. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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