Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Richard Powers

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Format
Paperback
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Country
Published
22 June 2021
Pages
416
ISBN
9780063140219

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Richard Powers

Dazzling and audacious… Nothing short of astounding. –Philadelphia Inquirer

The critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.

A writer of blistering intellect … [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers. – Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel.

As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and offer the reader a glimpse into a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.

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