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The Gold Bug Variations

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Andrew Garman
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A national best-seller, voted by Time as the number-one novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award - a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. 

Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits. 

The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of 25 years.

©1991 Richard Powers (P)2018 Recorded Books Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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