- Neurologists, National Book Award Winner, Medical fiction, Fiction
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.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Powers
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 514
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Vintage Books, Sound Library
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, heb, French, English
- ISBN
- 9782264047489
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