Powers, Richard

ORFEO. A Novel

New York: Norton, (2014). First edition. Hardcover. This copy, signed by Powers, is one of the 'indiespensable' copies done by Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Consisting of a hardcover first edition in gray cloth, in a slipcase, signed by Powers, issued without dust jacket with a small separate piece (this copy lacks). This novel tells the story of 70-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els, whose home experiments in biohacking musical patterns into a bacterial human pathogen, Serratia marcescens, have attracted the worried hazmat-suit-level attention of Homeland Security. A fine copy in cloth over boards with slipcase. Item #14219
ISBN: 9780393240825

Price: $125.00