Richard Powers

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 height of his skills.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond....

Set against the backdrop of postwar America, The Time of Our Singing is a magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted - and divided - family....

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident....

In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present....

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award....

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral....

After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US where a cognitive neurologist involves him in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books....

The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News). What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the...

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel....

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled...

Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness....

Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits....

Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, soap manufacturer Clare & Company grows into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown....

Après des années passées seule dans la forêt à étudier les arbres, la botaniste Pat Westerford en revient avec une découverte sur ce qui...

Wie kann eine Familie in einer unberechenbaren Welt überleben, ohne zu zerbrechen? Vater und Sohn allein: Der hochbegabte Robbie mit...

ine Insel. Vier Suchende. Verbunden durch das vielleicht letzte große Abenteuer der Menschheit. – Das bewegende Meisterwerk vom Pulitzer-Preisträger...

Makatea, île oubliée du Pacifique, porte encore les stigmates de décennies d'extraction minière. Aujourd'hui, une entreprise américaine envisage d'y implanter ...