No one writes lost causes, defiant hope, and earth grief like Richard Powers. No American writer this side of Annie Dillard can capture a natural place in such vigorous and lyrical language, or image so poignantly a besieged soul sojourning an unraveling world.
It is puzzling to see that such a masterful novel has provoked a number of critical, even host…
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