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The echo maker [electronic resource] / Richard Powers.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction -- On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident.
Record details
- ISBN: 0792746023 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780792746027 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [North Kingstown, RI] : Sound LIbrary, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 20:06:25. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Bernadette Dunne. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 289057 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Capgras syndrome > Fiction. Neurologists > Fiction. Nebraska > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Medical novels. Psychological fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction -- On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident.
