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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$32.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Gain by Richard Powers
$19.99 AUD
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
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
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
Playground by Richard Powers
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1939 at Marion Anderson's great protest concert in Washington, a German-Jewish -migr- physicist and a young black contralto are brought together by concern over a lost child. They eventually marry and have three children, bringing them up in a hot-house atmosphere of music and maths, hoping to raise ...Show more
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