New Releases by Richard Powers

Jim Neilson, Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers/Jim Neilson, An Interview with Richard Powers/James Hurt, Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller/Greg Dawes, The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers''s Three Farmers/Joseph Dewey, Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge, and the Mysteries of Bonding in The Gold Bug Variations/Trey Stecker, Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries/Ann Pancake, ''TheWheel''s Worst Illusion'': The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul/Sharon Snyder, The Gender of Genius: Scientific Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Fiction of Richard Powers/Charles B.Harris, ''The Stereo View'': Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain/A Richard Powers Checklist/Sinda Gregory, Finding a Language: Introducing Rikki Ducornet/Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, At the Heart of Things and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet/Rikki Ducornet, The Death Cunt of Deep Dell/Rikki Ducornet, Excerpts from Five Novels/Raymond Leslie Williams, Ducornet and Borges/Allen Guttmann, Rikki Ducornet''s Tetralogy of Elements: An Appreciation/Richard Martin, ''The Tantalizing Prize'': Telling the Telling of The Fountains of Neptune/Giovanna Covi, Gender Derision, Gender Corrosion, and Sexual Differences in Rikki Ducornet''s Materialist Eden/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Phosphor in Dreamland/Warren Motte, Desiring Words/A Rikki Ducornet Checklist

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.

... Tellsl the story of the beginning, planning, development, growth, activities and the gradual demobilization of the civilian defense forces in Massachusetts ...