The Art of Composition and Play

Since Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985), his first novel, Richard Powers has published thirteen books. In a career spanning nearly forty years, he has explored a wide range of subjects, and a variety of writing styles and compositional methods. His work includes texts with complex narrative structures and a sophisticated style, such as The Gold Bug Variations (1991) and Operation Wandering Soul (1993), as well as more conventional novels, like The Time of Our Singing (2003) and The...