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Rita M edited the quotations of The Echo Maker: A Novel 5 days ago.
- Edited a quotation: “"Nothing had the power to hurt her except for what power she gave it. Every barrier she'd ever chafed against was no more than a Chinese fingerlock that opened instantly when she stopped pulling...Other people were about themselves, not about her.
EveroneEveryone alive was at least as scared as she was. Remember that, and a person might come to love anyone."”The narrator, about Karen.
- Edited a quotation: “"Nothing had the power to hurt her except for what power she gave it. Every barrier she'd ever chafed against was no more than a Chinese fingerlock that opened instantly when she stopped pulling...Other people were about themselves, not about her.
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Rita M edited the quotations of The Echo Maker: A Novel 5 days ago.
- Added a quotation: “"Nothing had the power to hurt her except for what power she gave it. Every barrier she'd ever chafed against was no more than a Chinese fingerlock that opened instantly when she stopped pulling...Other people were about themselves, not about her. Everone alive was at least as scared as she was. Remember that, and a person might come to love anyone."”The narrator, about Karen.
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Shelfari edited the description of The Echo Maker: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.
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, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman–who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister–is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother’s refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition. Set against the Platte River’s massive spring migrations–one of the greatest spectacles in nature– The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Echo Maker: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.
- Added a contributor: Richard Powers: (Primary Author)
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