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The echo maker won the 2006 national book award for fiction, and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Stuart ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. The novels title works in edgar allan poes the gold bug and johann sebastian bachs the goldberg variations, in a clever nod to the main thematic material, but in addition to those motifs of codebreaking and music, powers also works strains of genetics, knowledge, and information into the mix, in addition to more human subjects like love. Accessories such as cd, codes, toys, may not be included. Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.
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