From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Among his most stunning yet: profound and heartbreaking
*Financial Times*
A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of
authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with
itself and the world, humanity and ecollogy... undoubtedly
magnificent
*The Times*
There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius
*Time Out*
An exhilarating narrative feat... He is a formidable talent, and
this is a lucid, fiercely entertaining novel
*Washington Post*
Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at
work in the English language today...[He writes] luminous prose.
Sentence after sentence has the razor-sharp quality of aphorism
about the weird wired world we have made
*Sunday Times*
When Karin's brother emerges from a coma after a serious car accident, he refuses to acknowledge Karin as his sister. Powerful stuff from an award-winning author. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Among his most stunning yet: profound and heartbreaking * Financial
Times *
A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of
authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with
itself and the world, humanity and ecollogy... undoubtedly
magnificent * The Times *
There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius * Time
Out *
An exhilarating narrative feat... He is a formidable talent, and
this is a lucid, fiercely entertaining novel -- Sebastian Faulks *
Washington Post *
Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at
work in the English language today...[He writes] luminous prose.
Sentence after sentence has the razor-sharp quality of aphorism
about the weird wired world we have made * Sunday Times *
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