Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance..., Richard Powers
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance..., Richard Powers
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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Author: Richard Powers

Narrator: John Skelley

Unabridged: 13 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/20/2020


Synopsis

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of
innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young
narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it.
The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers is the author of New York Times bestseller Bewilderment; The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; among many other novels. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian

CRITIQUE: Confessions of a Late Modernist In an interview with Jeffrey Williams that took place in 1998 and was published the following year, Richard Powers admitted that his "extended and overwhelming love affair was with European modernism - Proust, Mann, Joyce, Musil, Kafka - the stuff that transfo......more