Plowing the Dark
$24.52
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
A brand new edition of the kaleidoscopic novel from the author of The Overstory.
‘Part of the joy of reading Powers over the years has been his capacity for revelation’ Colson Whitehead
On the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a plain white room that can become a jungle, a painting or a vast Byzantine cathedral. Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is fascinated by this cutting-edge technology.
In a war-torn city …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804951804 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804951803 |
| Author: | Richard Powers |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Spectacular … Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page … Riveting * New York Times *Superb … Powers’ seventh and perhaps greatest novel … one of the most astonishing feats I’ve ever seen in literature * Washington Post *Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world * Red *
About The Author
Richard Powers
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.
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