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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt once referred to the Apache Trail as "one of the most spectacular best-worth-seeing sights of the world." The once narrow, ancient foot trail built as a supply road for the construction of Roosevelt Dam has now evolved into a state highway with majestic scenic vistas and historical grandeur. Even in the 1920s, the Southern Pacific Railroad touted this road as a "must-see side trip." Each year, thousands of people ventu...

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt once referred to the Apache Trail as aone of the most spectacular best-worth-seeing sights of the world.a The once narrow, ancient foot trail built as a supply road for the construction of Roosevelt Dam has now evolved into a state highway with majestic scenic vistas and historical grandeur. Even in the 1920s, the Southern Pacific Railroad touted this road as a amust-see side trip.a Each year, thousands of people ventu...

Three Boston merchant brothers coax from an Irish immigrant the secret of making fine soap, and set into motion a chain of events that spins a family-run cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant.

From the author of "The Time Of Our Singing", which has sold 34, 000 copies to date, this follows a 27 year old man as he experiences a near fatal accident and falls into a coma. When he awakes, he's convinced his sister is an impostor and cannot remember how the accident happened. Comparable to other great American writers such as Delillo, Pynchon and Roth. 'Among his most stunning yet: profound and heartbreaking' "Financial Times

«El eco de la memoria es una reflexión tranquila sobre cómo sobrevivimos día a día.» Colson WhiteheadUna noche de invierno, el camión de Mark Shluter vuelca en un tramo desierto de carretera en Nebraska. Una llamada anónima avisa del accidente y Mark es trasladado al hospital, donde, después de un diagnóstico inicialmente optimista, entra en coma. Karin Shluter, que ha pasado toda su vida intentando escapar de su ciudad natal, vuelve a toda pr...

Uno de los jóvenes escritores americanos que puede considerarse heredero de Pynchon, Gaddis y DeLillo.Tras años de vivir en el extrangero, el protagonista de esta novela -una suerte de alter ego ficticio del autor- entra a trabajar en un centro de estudios científicos donde conocerá al profesor Lentz, un neurólogo empeñado en el diseño de modelos de cerebro humano, sirviéndose de redes neuronales programadas por ordenador. Lentz embarca a Powe...

For the last 20 years, Alan Powers, who lives near Cape Cod, has experimented with birdcalls—mimicking and answering the calls he hears around his country home, in cities, and abroad in France and Italy. In BirdTalk, he celebrates this connection with entertaining allusions to history, literature, travel, linguistics, and other fields. The result is a charming and erudite stroll through an area of interest sometimes lost in the urban din. Powe...

In a Digital Laboratory, virtual-reality researchers rush to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, a young man is held hostage in another empty white room, equipped only with his imagination and memory. The two are doomed to meet in the white room of shared imagination that they unwittingly build in common.

Richard Powers arbeitete als Programmierer in den Docks von Boston. Während der Nachtschicht las er Thomas Manns »Zauberberg«. Als er im Museum die berühmte Fotografie des Kölner August Sanders von drei jungen Männer aus dem Jahr 1914 entdeckt, denkt er, dem Jahrhundert in die Augen zu schauen. Der Erzähler Richard Powers war geboren. Der Held in Powers Geschichte ist ebenso von Sanders Fotografie in Bann gezogen. Fieberhaft recherchiert er di...

Der große amerikanische Romanautor Richard Powers erzählt in »Klang der Zeit« eine Geschichte voll Anmut und Schönheit über eine Familie mit zwei Hautfarben und einer Leidenschaft: der Musik. Entstanden ist ein cinematogaphischer Roman über Amerikas jüngste Vergangenheit, über die Lüge, auf der seine Gegenwart baut, und eine einzigartige Liebeserklärung an die Musik.

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of "Galatea 2.2"--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to tr...