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The Gold Bug Variations

An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory

Stuart Ressler, a brilliant biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes — social, moral, musical, spiritual — and he falls in love with a member of his research team.

Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different mystery — why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science?

Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.

‘A love story of charm and substance, brimming over with ideas, yet anchored in emotional truth’ Sunday Telegraph

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 688
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-1-78470-972-3
  • EAN
  • 9781784709723
  • Release date
  • 2019