NP new Powers novel review

[pynchonoid]

<http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/01/mallon.htm>
Going to Extremes 
Richard Powers is getting bigger and more ponderous.
Nicholson Baker is getting smaller and more
evanescent. Decision: Baker 

The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A Box of Matches
by Nicholson Baker
Random House 
 
by Thomas Mallon 

" [...] In The Time of Our Singing, Powers constructs
a huge chronicle of the Strom family: David, a
Jewish-refugee physicist from Hitler's Germany; Delia,
the vocally talented daughter of an African-American
doctor from Philadelphia; and their three interracial
offspring, Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth. [...] "
 


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