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The Echo Maker

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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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, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident - armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness.

©2007 Richard Powers (P)2006 AudioGO

Accolades & Awards

National Book Award
2006
Literary Fiction National Book Award Psychological Fiction Suspense Genre Fiction Thriller & Suspense
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I didn't love the story but it was well written and had some really enjoyable sections. The narrator performed beautifully.

Well written, great narration

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Loved this book--the language , plot, twists and turns. Narration was great! Ms. Dunne's voice was easy to listen to and her voice fit the characters.
I think Richard Powers is one of my current favorite authors.

Fantastic

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Having thoroughly appreciated The Overstory a couple of years ago, I was delighted to stumble upon another novel by Richard Powers. This author does a masterful job of weaving the macrocosm of our planet and the microcosm of its inhabitants - The small stories of individual lives cast against the backdrop of infinite nature and the overwhelming cosmos. Finishing his books is like coming back from a shamanic vision quest with an expanded, and humbling, perspective.

An altered state created through literature

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I loved the thematic breadth acheived by the interweaving of the narratives— the stories of the inner and exterior lives of the neurobiologist, the patient, the sister. As in real life, their disparate and trivial narratives find wholeness and welcome, even meaning, in the vast inconceivableness of nature. My second read by Richard Powers. Looking eagerly forward to the next!

So poetic

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The story line is great! I feel like the author did a lot of research on the character’s condition and shared way more of it than I cared to hear in a book I’m reading for entertainment. I did like the story line and felt it’s could have been condensed and would not have lost integrity.

Too much technical science

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