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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third g ...Show more
Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryTHE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it. . . . It ...Show more
Gain by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a visionary novel about the failings of the American dream.'It's not possible for powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret AtwoodIn Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges in ...Show more
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The OverstoryFrom one of America?s greatest writers, a thrilling and beautiful novel about why we make the choices we do - and, ultimately, about what makes us human After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up the po ...Show more
Generosity by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious harm? Soon, Thassa's joyful personality comes t ...Show more
Living Modern - The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
Category: Home Interiors
Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Hun ...Show more
Making House - Designers at Home by Dominic Bradbury; Richard Powers (Photographer)
Category: Design
Making House: Designers at Home features 20 houses and apartments by leading interior, furniture, and product designers - homes by designers, as designed for themselves - including the abodes of such well-known figures as Jonathan Adler, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Stephen Sills, Marc Newso ...Show more
Making L. A. Modern Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer by Michael Boyd (Editor); Richard Powers (Photographer); Ray Kappe (Foreword by)
Category: Architecture
This is the definitive volume on Craig Ellwood, a visionary architect, designer, and tastemaker often called the "California Mies van der Rohe."Craig Ellwood, "the Cary Grant of architecture," was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for his exquisitely ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt ...Show more
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a kaleidoscopic novel about the wild freedom of the imagination.'Part of the joy of reading Powers over the years has been his capacity for revelation' Colson WhiteheadOn the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race ...Show more