The Resource The echo maker, Richard Powers
The echo maker, Richard Powers
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The item The echo maker, Richard Powers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library.
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- Summary
- On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-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 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 world of brain disorders. Weber recognizes Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome--the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or imposters--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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The echo maker
- Title
- The echo maker
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Powers
- Subject
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- trueSiblings
- trueMedicine
- trueMemories
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNebraska
- Nebraska -- Fiction
- trueNeurologists
- Neurologists -- Fiction
- trueParanoia
- truePeople in comas
- Psychological fiction
- trueReality
- trueSecrets
- Traffic accident victims -- Fiction
- trueTwenties (Age)
- trueAccidents
- trueBrain injury
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueCapgras syndrome
- Capgras syndrome -- Fiction
- trueCognitive disorders
- trueHead injuries
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Medical fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-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 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 world of brain disorders. Weber recognizes Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome--the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or imposters--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
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2006.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2006.
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2006.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2006
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 146776
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Powers, Richard
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Capgras syndrome
- Neurologists
- Brothers and sisters
- Traffic accident victims
- Identity (Psychology)
- Nebraska
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The echo maker, Richard Powers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 451 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312426439
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2006000093
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62790370
- Label
- The echo maker, Richard Powers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 451 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312426439
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2006000093
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62790370
Subject
- trueSiblings
- trueMedicine
- trueMemories
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNebraska
- Nebraska -- Fiction
- trueNeurologists
- Neurologists -- Fiction
- trueParanoia
- truePeople in comas
- Psychological fiction
- trueReality
- trueSecrets
- Traffic accident victims -- Fiction
- trueTwenties (Age)
- trueAccidents
- trueBrain injury
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueCapgras syndrome
- Capgras syndrome -- Fiction
- trueCognitive disorders
- trueHead injuries
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Medical fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2006
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2006
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2006
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
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