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The Gold Bug Variations is a novel by American writer Richard Powers, first released in 1991. Plot introduction. The novel intertwines the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA with the musicality of Johann Sebastian Bach 's harpsichord composition the Goldberg Variations.
25 de ago. de 1991 · In The Gold Bug Variations, it is Stuart Ressler, who had a brief brush with fame in the 1950s, on the cutting edge of cracking the genetic code. Now, almost a recluse, he works night shifts in a computer processing warehouse in Brooklyn, incessantly playing Bach's Goldberg Variations on a scratchy gramophone.
5 de oct. de 2021 · The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.
7 de nov. de 2019 · An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. Stuart Ressler, a brilliant biologist, sets out in...
The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love,...
1 de may. de 2024 · 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.
1 de ene. de 1991 · The Gold Bug Variations. Hardcover – January 1, 1991. Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the sixties, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits.
