Orfeo makes Telegraph’s best of 2014

Tim Martin of the UK’s Telegraph picks his favorite books of the year.  “Christmas Books 2014: best fiction to read: Forget Amis, McEwan and the Booker winner — these are the best novels of 2014,” by Tim Martin, The Telegraph, November 23, 2104.

Richard Powers’s Orfeo mixed forbidding current themes – bio-hacking, the American politics of fear – with the passion for classical music that has been latent in his work since The Time of Our Singing, and was the best thing he’s done in years.