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The Gold Bug Variations Format:Trade Paperback The police insist there’s noNational Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty five years. The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravitys Rainbow . . . An outright marvel. Washington Post Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are