Richard Powers

• Aug-1985
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“Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding.” -- Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“A writer of blistering intellec...

• Aug-1991
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National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years...

• May-1993
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National Book Award FinalistFrom the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of storyte...

• Jun-1995
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"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea ...

• Apr-1996
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The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.” -- New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson...

• Jun-1998
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers's Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of La...

• Aug-1998
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• Jun-2000
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark recasts the rules of the novel and remains one his most daring works--a mesmerizing fiction explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save.In a digital laboratory on the shor...

• Feb-2003
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“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent,...

• Oct-2006
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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from...

• Oct-2009
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When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. Ho...

• Nov-2012
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National Book Award winner Richard Powers ("The Echo Maker," "Galatea 2.2," "Generosity") has been hailed as the smartest novelist of our time. Few writers have bridged the gap between art and science so compellingly, so passionately, and with such i...

• Jan-2014
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The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century…he'd probably be the Herman Melville of M...

• Apr-2018
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A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most “prodigiously talented” novelists (New York Times Book Review). THE OVERSTORY unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum N...

• Sep-2021
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AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A Best Book/Best Novel of 2021 at NPR, Newswee...

• Sep-2024
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A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize�"w...