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The echo maker

Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter, suffering from a rare brain disorder that causes him to believe his sister to be an impostor, endeavors to discover the cause of the motor vehicle accident that resulted in his head injury.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Medical novels
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Powers
ISBN: 0374146357 9780374146351
OCLC Number: 62790370
Awards: National Book Award, Fiction, 2006
Description: 451 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Richard Powers.
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On a winter night, Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But, when he  Read more...

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