Plowing The Dark by Richard Powers
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORYIn a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral.
"Spectacular.. Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page... Riveting" * New York Times Book Review *
"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 *
"There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius" * Time Out *
"One of the finest efforts from the massively gifted Powers, who again probes the fluid buffer between science and the imagination" * Kirkus Reviews *
"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 *
"There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius" * Time Out *
"One of the finest efforts from the massively gifted Powers, who again probes the fluid buffer between science and the imagination" * Kirkus Reviews *
"Superb...powers' seventh and perhaps greatest novel...one of the most astonishing feats I've ever seen in literature." * Washington Post *
Richard Powers is a the author of ten novels, including Galatea 2.2 and The Gold Bug Variations, both of which were nominated for the US National Book Critics Circle Award; Gain, and Operation Wandering Soul, which were nominated for the US National Book Award for Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099286721 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099286726 |
| Title | Plowing The Dark |
| Author | Richard Powers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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