"Among his most stunning yet: profound and heartbreaking" Financial Times "A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with itself and the world, humanity and ecollogy... undoubtedly magnificent" The Times "There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius" Time Out "An exhilarating narrative feat... He is a formiddable talent, and this is a lucid, fiercely entertaining novel" -- Sebastian Faulks Washington Post "Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today...[He writes] luminous prose. Sentence after sentence has the razor-sharp quality of aphorism about the weird wired world we have made" Sunday Times
