The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
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You’ll surely think of other examples, but for me two that stand out as being highly representative of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” are the 1996 Yankees (who won the World Series without a super star on the No-I-in-Team team) and Pink Floyd’s trenchant observation of the precariousness of the human condition in The Dark Side of the Moon. I’ll add Richard Powers’s National Book Award winning novel, The Echo…