(*) The main female character of this novel is a reference desk librarian who ends her relationship with Keith Tuckwell after meeting Franklin Todd when the latter asks her to find information on a colleague who works the night shift in a computer room with him.
A minor character in this novel, Eva Blake, has the ability to take ambidextrous dictation simultaneously backwards and forwards, and another character in this novel is researching the art of the Flemish painter Herri met de Bles. A male character in this novel cries on seeing Eva's daughter Margaret recite Hopkins' "Spring and Fall," because he sees the girl as a "self-governingÂ… republic of mutually dependent parasites." At the end of this novel, Joe Lovering kills all the rats in his lab before committing suicide, which ruins the romance between the one character and Jeannette Koss, who had introduced that character to a particular work of music. (*) The main female character of this novel is a reference desk librarian who ends her relationship with Keith Tuckwell after meeting Franklin Todd when the latter asks her to find information on a colleague who works the night shift in a computer room with him. For 10 points, identify this novel in which Jan O'Deigh uncovers the past scientific career of geneticist Stuart Ressler, which was written by Richard Powers and takes its name from a cross between a Poe short story and a set of works for the harpsichord by J.S. Bach.
A minor character in this novel, Eva Blake, has the ability to take ambidextrous dictation simultaneously backwards and forwards, and another character in this novel is researching the art of the Flemish painter Herri met de Bles.
The Gold Bug Variations