PLAYGROUND follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity''s next great adventure.Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY and the Booker-shortlisted BEWILDERMENT.
Praise for Richard Powers:
''Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer'' GUARDIAN
''Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality'' OBSERVER
''He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I''ve ever read. I''m in awe of his talent'' OPRAH WINFREY
''It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers''s message'' SUNDAY TIMES
''Refreshing, original and moving'' EVENING STANDARD
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021 AN OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB SELECTION AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021 THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY ''Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer'' Guardian ''Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality'' Observer ''He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I''ve ever read. I''m in awe of his talent'' Oprah Winfrey _________________________ Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend''s face with a thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, all while fostering his son''s desperate attempt to save this one. At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018, a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe 'The best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett 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 communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times 'It's a masterpiece' Tim Winton 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret Atwood 'An astonishing performance' Benjamin Markovits, Guardian
A thrilling novel that explores private fears, public hysteria and the art of music, by one of America's most important living writers. 'Orfeo' is inspired by the fascinating real-life account of Steve Kurts, the bio-artist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI and prosecuted by the American Government for four years. In a story of one man running for his life, Richard Powers shows how all of us are perilously close to crossing the blurred boundary that separates state security and state persecution. Longlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize.
Traversant les principaux mouvements de design des 120 dernières années, notamment l'art déco, le modernisme et le postmodernisme, ce livre nous permet de découvrir cinquante des maisons les plus importantes sur le plan architectural de Grande-Bretagne. La sélection compte des noms établis de l'architecture moderne et contemporaine mais aussi de talents émergents, offrant un aperçu unique de l'évolution des goûts et des attitudes à l'égard de la construction de maisons en Grande-Bretagne : Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Berthold Lubetkin, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Rogers, Seth Stein, Nick Eldridge, Robin Partington et Ken Shuttleworth sont seulement quelques-uns parmi les architectes présents dans cet ouvrage.
Modern fictionIn the spring of 1914, a renowned photographer took a photo of three young men on their way to a dance. But what happens to them after the shutter falls, when WWI destroys their innocence?
Modern fictionReissue of the classic novel from Powers, with a brand new jacket. Focuses on a number of sick children in a hospital, who are kept alive on storytelling and make believe.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, a thrilling and timely novel of the human soul After years of living abroad, a young writer, Richard, returns to the United States to take up the position of Humanist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Advanced Sciences.
There he encounters Philip Lentz, a brilliant and outspoken cognitive neurologist who involves him in an outlandish and irresistible experiment: to train a neural net of computers - Helen - to model the human brain through reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until she demands to know her own age, sex, race and reason for existing...
Galatea 2.2 is a dazzling novel of ideas that explores why we make the choices we do.
'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' New York Times
