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Original Title:	The Echo Maker
ISBN:	0374146357 (ISBN13: 9780374146351)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.richardpowers.net/the-echo-maker/
Characters:	Barbara Gillespie, Gerald Weber, Mark Schluter, Karin Schluter, Duane Cain, Tommy Rupp, Sylvie Weber, Bonnie Travis, Daniel Riegel
Setting:	Nebraska(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2007), National Book Award for Fiction (2006)

The Echo Maker

Richard Powers

Hardcover | Pages: 451 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 8552 Users | 1349 Reviews

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Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of his accident.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother’s refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.

Set against the Platte River’s massive spring migrations – one of the greatest spectacles in nature – The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

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Title	:	The Echo Maker
Author	:	Richard Powers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2006 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Literature. Novels

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Flowers for Algernon for the new millennium!!!!!Okay, not really, no. Well, maybe a little...?The best parts of this book were those written from the perspective of a character with severe traumatic brain injury. The rest of it was good too, but the characters were never quite convincing enough for me to suspend my disbelief and actually care what happened to them. Of course, I was helplessly distracted the entire time by the Man Behind the Curtain. Does Richard Powers do all his own research?

My guess is that Powers, an erudite fellow, learned a lot about the human brain from pouring through neuroscience literature, and then tried to write a novel (since he's an novelist) where he could forward what he learned to his audience. He adds to the plot with an intersection of more things he learned about migrating cranes in Nebraska. Pitting commercial developers (the bad guys) against environmentalists (saintly vegans), he manages through liberal logic (cf: God is love; love is blind;

This was my second time through this book, this time as part of a project to re-read all of Powers books in publication order, one per month for a year. As this is book number 9, there is a good body of work behind this that I have now read at least twice, plus some foreknowledge of what Powers will write after this one (I have read Generosity once and both Orfeo and The Overstory twice).Im a bit conflicted after completing this re-read of The Echo Maker. Somehow, it was simultaneously better

The Echo Maker (2006) won the National Book Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Here is a small sample of the many glowing reviews that the book and its author received: A grand novel grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand in its patterning. Margaret AtwoodPowers is better than the best of almost anybody else. John Leonard, Harpers MagazineA prodigious meditation on the very nature of creation. Lisa Shea, Elle A remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a

Plot and formula won out over characters in this Powers effort. Although the description sounds quite intriguing, the execution was flat and undeveloped. To me, it seems as if Powers stumbled upon this concept of the Capgras Syndrome and decided to write about it. How interesting that a person could have this focused paranoia, where he believes everything in the world save one person or thing, whom he believes to be an impostor? Now, to write the book, it seems that Powers researched the

SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT: I'm not giving away the ending here, but the following does give away some of the plot developments.This won the National Book Award last year, and is by an author who has received one of the MacArthur "genius awards." Did it deserve it? In the end, I can't endorse the choice, even though there is much to commend in this book. The basic story: a Nebraska factory worker flips his truck on a cold winter night, and when he wakes up, he believes that his sister has been swapped

My wife is such a sweetie. She saw that my job had me knee-deep in numbers and thought maybe Id appreciate more words in my life for ballast. With that in mind, she arranged for me to take an online writing class. We just started Week 2 Show, dont tell. One of the discussion prompts was to cite examples of a writer who shows particularly well. Turns out, I have a ready supply of quotable passages from books Ive been meaning (for too long) to review. The set I had for this one just about ran my