The Sunday Telegraph London, March 9th, 2003
The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers
Heinemann, pounds 14.99, 631 pp
pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
THE NOVELS of Richard Powers are not well known in this country, but across the Atlantic he is regarded by many as the finest American novelist under the age of 50. The Time of our Singing is the most sweeping in range of his eight books. It is in the grand tradition that goes back to Sir Walter Scott's invention of the historical novel: the life-story of a fictional family is presented as the microcosm of an age. As in Scott, real-life historical figures have cameo roles...
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