Richard Powers

• Aug-1985
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Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of The Overstory.In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young me...

• Aug-1991
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National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize�"winning 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 lavi...

• May-1993
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This novel from the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of Bewilderment examines life in a hospital children’s ward, innocence, and the power of storytelling.In the pediatric ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick childr...

• 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 Playground.“Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.” -- New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of f...

• 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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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground. “Plowing the Dark is virtual reality composed in a language that will never go obsolete.” -- Kevin Berger, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review...

• 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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Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue • Selected as "Fiction to Read this Fall" by the New York Times, Los Angeles Ti...