"'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony' viscerally rearranged me. Threading through the labyrinth of Greek mythology, it combines lyricism and theory to regenerate that first, enchanted dialogue between animate and inanimate worlds..."
"I think its genesis is...a growing awareness that there was a presence lurking behind most of my other books: the presence of business and markets."
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Richard Powers grew up the suburbs of Chicago (one of the few non-Jewish children in his school) and then, at the age of 11, moved with his family to Bangkok for five years. Powers entertained himself by playing music and reading books. He loved classics such as THE ILIAD and THE OYDESSY, and also scientific works. Charles Darwin's VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, which he read in the fourth grade, had a powerful impact on him, and from an early age he felt destined to become a scientist. After high-school more...
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06/18/1957 Evanston, Illinois, Great Lakes States, United States,
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This book is long, and at times technical. But there are parts of it that stick with me to this day, even though I read it almost 20 years ago and only once.
A truly amazing book.