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Title	:	The Echo Maker
Author	:	Richard Powers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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 liked this book for its study of the human brain at different zoom levels; from the evolutionary scale of millions of years, our reptilian brain and deep-rooted animal instincts connecting us to the cranes, the intriguing species Powers has chosen to present his case. The narratives intertwining observations about the cranes, the water ways, and the human relationship to them (at once primevally close and irreparably distant) are beautifully woven and provide plenty of thought-provoking

I will look back on this and see it as a mistake. I should not pass judgment on a book that I haven't finished, and should keep quiet about my displeasure with a novel that seems to be universally loved. I know (because it always happens) that I will look back and realize how dumb I am. Even so, I am fighting my way through Powers's writing. Is there anyone out there who feels the same? Is there no one who also feels that the writing comes off as amateurish and sentimental, and who is exhausted

The number of two-star reviews here amazes me! Please, if you've never read Richard Powers before, are considering it, and are put off by these reviews, take the chance and read his work anyway. As a writer, I go back to his books over and over when I need to be reminded exactly how beautiful writing works. His stuff is dense and intellectual, which can make it difficult, and yeah, his dialogue can be stilted, like he's so smart he has trouble making his characters less erudite than himself. But

Flowers for Algernon for the new millennium!!!!!Okay, not really, no. Well, maybe a little...?The best parts of this book were those written from the perspective of a character with severe traumatic brain injury. The rest of it was good too, but the characters were never quite convincing enough for me to suspend my disbelief and actually care what happened to them. Of course, I was helplessly distracted the entire time by the Man Behind the Curtain. Does Richard Powers do all his own research?

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

If you spent a week reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat while watching the Hallmark Channel, you might end up writing this novel. Mark Shluter has crashed his truck and his sister, Karin, quits her job and dumps her boyfriend to take care of him. But Mark suffered a brain injury in the accident and insists that his sister is not his sister but someone pretending to be his sister. A famous neurologist, Gerald Weber, arrives to see Mark so he can write about him in his next book. And

My wife is such a sweetie. She saw that my job had me knee-deep in numbers and thought maybe Id appreciate more words in my life for ballast. With that in mind, she arranged for me to take an online writing class. We just started Week 2 Show, dont tell. One of the discussion prompts was to cite examples of a writer who shows particularly well. Turns out, I have a ready supply of quotable passages from books Ive been meaning (for too long) to review. The set I had for this one just about ran my