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Echo Maker First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Powers, Richard (Author)
ISBN: 0312426437     ISBN-13: 9780312426439
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
OUR PRICE:   $19.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2007
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: On a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. When he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an identical impostor.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Nebraska
 
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Publisher Description:

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
From the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of The Overstory, a powerful novel about family and loss

"Wise and elegant . . . The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition . . . Powers accomplishes something magnificent."
--Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review
In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition.

Contributor Bio(s): Powers, Richard: - Richard Powers is the author of several novels, including The Echo Maker (FSG, 2006), which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.