The Echo Maker

The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers which won the National Book Award for fiction. It was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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 ... more

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood, where his father was the principal at a local school. When Powers was 11,...

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  • 2006
  • Oct 17, 2006
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