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Orfeo

Product Number: D3650
Released: 01 Feb, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471280689
Narrator(s): William Roberts
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els flees and turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. But alarm turns to national hysteria. As Els feels the noose around him tighten, he embarks on a cross-country trip to visit, one last time, the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey.

Author(s): Richard Powers
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2015

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Large Print
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Author(s): Richard Powers
Product Number LP3358
Released: 01 Dec, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781471276439
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Author(s): Richard Powers
Narrator(s): William Roberts
Product Number CX2856
Released: 01 Nov, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781471277252

Professional reviews

"Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 ‘Extraordinary and confounding… mind-spinning and wonderful’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘Sweet, funny, sad and haunting… A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel’ GUARDIAN"

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