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

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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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)

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I find the task of reviewing Richard Powers daunting and humbling. This is my third one, after Orfeo and The Time of Our Singing, and they are all brilliant in subtly different ways. One obvious difference is that there is much less music in this one, but there is a wealth of ideas - on the brain, on nature and evolution, on the nature of American society after 9/11, and on the nature of love and what it really means to know another person. Then there is the setting, the Platte river in South

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 book stunk so badly that I left it on the seat of the train as I was leaving. A woman behind me said, "Excuse me, I think you left your book."And I said, "Yeah, I kind of wanted to leave my book, in hopes that someone else would come along and not hate it as much as I did."This book was long, boring, rambling and had one plot twist that was moderately interesting, but didn't show up until about page 400 (out of 450). Skip it. Seriously. Spend time reading a neurobiology book, or a book

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

This is my fourth Richard Powers book in as many weeks. When the Austin paper reviewed The Echo Maker prior to its release, I was intrigued and drawn to this author with an immediate urgency to read him. First I read the beautiful and opera-like The Time of our Singing and followed with the tender Galatea 2.2, two very different stories that demonstrate Powers' narrative alacrity. (Now add to that The Gold Bug Variations, which I plan on reviewing as an equally powerful novel. )Then I read The

I couldn't finish this slow, overly descriptive, not-at-all intriguing, boring novel. It was a book-club pick and only two people finished it, one kicking and screaming.The book is about a man in his mid-20s who's in a car accident and spends two weeks in a coma. When he wakes up and begins his recovery, he accuses his sister the two have always been very close of being an impostor. It's a disorder called Capgras syndrome, and it's very rare.The neuroscience and psychology in the book are