Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

'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 on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American teacher - Taimur Martin - is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room.

What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common...

'Spectacular... Riveting' New York Times

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 *

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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ISBN 13	9781804951804
ISBN 10	1804951803
Title	Plowing the Dark
Author	Richard Powers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2025-02-20
Number of pages	432
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