National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment , a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.
The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers , The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art..
Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery: Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.
His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes--social, moral, musical, spiritual--and he falls in love with a member of his research team.
An outright marvel." -- Washington Post Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. . . "The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity\'s Rainbow .
National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment , a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years
