Literary Review highlights Orfeo

“Music in the Blood: Orfeo by Richard Powers,” by John Dugdale, Literary Review, April 2014 (p. 54).

Richard Powers’s brainy, elegantly written novels almost invariably focus on a field of science or an art form, and in some of them art and science are contrapuntal themes as the narrative advances through several decades. … its characters have substance, its distant artistic fiascos are richly imagined and Powers’s witty handling of Els makes it beguiling reading.