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| Year of Publication |
2014
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
384 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
W. W. Norton & Co.
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| City |
New York, London
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| Abstract |
Peter Els, a composer and professor, becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, used to find surprising patterns in music, arouses the suspicions of Homeland Security. Els, the “Bioterrorist Bach,” attempts to turn his “disastrous collision with the security state into a work of art.”
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| Author Biography |
Richard Powers (1957- ), raised in suburban Chicago, is the author of eleven novels. He has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the National Book Award. He is an English professor at the University of Illinois.
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| Time |
2010s
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