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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance / Richard Powers.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.O92 T47 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers, Richard, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York (N.Y.) : Perennial, 2001.
- Summary:
- In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers's brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.
- ISBN:
- 0060975091
- 9780060975098
- OCLC:
- 419675521
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