RICHARD POWERS • THE GOLD BUG VARIATIONS • EARLY PRINTING • 1991 HC • OVERSTORY

Description: From the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of The Overstory and the Echo Maker: THE GOLD BUG VARIATIONS: A Novel, by Richard Powers. First Edition, Early Printing (5th). Hardcover, 1991. William Morrow & Company: New York. Teal Paper-Backed Boards with the Publisher’s Navy Cloth to the Spine; Gold Lettering; Octavo; Deckle Edged; 639 Pages. A Very Good to Near-Fine, Unread Copy of Powers’ Breakout Third Novel, a Complex, Innovative story of Science which Earned Comparisons to Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and was named TIME’s Best Book of the Year. The novel intertwines the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA with the musicality of Johann Sebastian Bach's harpsichord composition the Goldberg Variations, while also incorporating allusions to Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold Bug.” A Tight, Square Copy. Some Rubbing, Fading, and Minor Wear to the Boards; Internally Clean, Crisp, and Unblemished Free of Writing or Bookplates; Boards are Straight and the Binding is Tight. Comes in a Near-Fine Dust Jacket With Minor Rubbing but Otherwise Excellent, now Protected in a Removable Mylar Cover. A handsome early printing. Per the Times: “Just seeing so much sheer cleverness packed into 639 pages is a remarkable experience. The novel reads as if it's been written from a room-size collection of index cards, so dense is each paragraph. Almost every sentence is a heroic tour de force built around a fascinating gimmick of language, usually a pun or a metaphor derived from the figurative possibilities of scientific technical language, liberated from the usual literary attention to connotation or elegance.” A classic entry in the genre of big, ambitious novels of ideas and hyper-intelligent language.

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