„The wildly disparate elements in The Echo Maker are the endangered sandhill cranes – known to American Indians as ‚the echo makers‘ because of their sonorous calls – and their migratory stopover on the Platte River in flat, flat, flat Nebraska.“ Margaret Atwood: In the Heart of the Heartland. In: The New York Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 20, 21. Dezember 2006 nybooks.com abgerufen am 3. August 2011
Margaret Atwood: In the Heart of the Heartland. In: The New York Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 20, 21. Dezember 2006 nybooks.com abgerufen am 3. August 2011
„Powers is in the third category: the second time through is necessary to pick up all the hidden treasure-hunt clues you might have missed on your first gallop through the plot. You do gallop, because Powers can plot.“ Margaret Atwood: In the Heart of the Heartland. In: The New York Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 20, 21. Dezember 2006 nybooks.com abgerufen am 3. August 2011
„That sort of thing puts a critic on notice, and indeed Powers has gathered critical comments that most writers would kill their grannies for.“ Margaret Atwood: In the Heart of the Heartland. In: The New York Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 20, 21. Dezember 2006 nybooks.com am 3. August 2011
Margaret Atwood: In the Heart of the Heartland. In: The New York Review of Books. Volume 53, Number 20, 21. Dezember 2006 nybooks.com abgerufen am 3. August 201)
