Title: It's Powers; what else need one say?
Product review: I am currently making my way through Powers's books in a mostly chronological manner. I gave this one four stars only because I preferred _Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance_ and _The Gold Bug Variations_ (read out of sequence, of course), but measured against most other writers' novels this would probably get five stars. As someone else said, it starts out more modestly, and I thought I wasn't going to get the mind-blowing intellectual and philosophical richness I had encountered in the two other books, but then Walt Disney and the Japanese-American internment enter the story and things get really strange. This guy is an amazing writer.
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