The Gold Bug Variations
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780688098919 (0688098916)
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: New York: William Morrow
Pages no: 639
Edition language: English
It took me a long time to finish this book, mostly due to never being able to give it all of my attention, instead having to catch a chapter here and there when I could amongst all the moving plans, preparations, and actual occurrence. While reading it, I could not help myself from remarking to seve...
The title is a warning to the casual reader: If you don't get the title, or if you don't want to get the title,beware."In The Gold Bug Variations, author Richard Powers perspicaciously composes a novel with themes of puzzles (Edgar Allen Poe's The Gold Bug), music structure (Bach's Goldberg Variatio...