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Gold Bug Variations
Gold Bug Variations
Author: Richard Powers
A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award -- a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to...  more ».

The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years.  Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes -- social, moral, musical, spiritual -- and he falls in love with a member of his research team.  Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery -- why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire
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ISBN-13: 9780060975005
ISBN-10: 0060975008
Publication Date: 9/9/1992
Pages: 640
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  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Love, science, data, information gathering all mixed up in a glorious novel.


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