The Echo Maker

De: Richard Powers

Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne

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.

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Well written, great narration

I didn't love the story but it was well written and had some really enjoyable sections. The narrator performed beautifully.

Fantastic

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.

An altered state created through literature

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.

So poetic

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!

Too much technical science

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.