Orfeo

Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful

Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful

Powers is prodigiously talented. besides being fearfully erudite, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life

A virtuoso performance

A magnificent and moving novel

The best novel about classical music ... since Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

Orfeo has a galloping finale that is sweet, funny, sad and haunting all at once ... A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel

Extraordinary ... His evocations of music, let alone lost love, simply soar off the page ... Once again, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our finest novelists

Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory . He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.