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Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize
As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - One of the Ten Best Books of 2024, according to the Washington Post and AARP - A Time Must-Read Book of 2024 - One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024 - An Economist, The New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 - Selected as Fall 2024 "Fiction to Read" by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, and Parade
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781324086031
EAN:
9781324086031
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
400
Authors:
Richard Powers
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date: 2024-24-09
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Powers is one of our best.
What you get with every Richard Powers novel from Overstory toBewilderment to Generosity to his latest Playground. A literarygenius.
I am not sure I would have understood the book without book club. A lot to ponder and interesting for discussion.
When I finish a book and can't stop thinking about it, I know I have read something special. The theme is life. Beautiful descriptions of the ocean and its inhabitants along with a good study of human character. Of course, the potential impact of the trashing of the oceans coupled with the potential power of AI is so relevant.Don't be discouraged at the beginning of the book... keep reading because it is well worth it.
An astonishing description of our oceans and possible future of AI. Even my hero Sir David Attenborough agrees on the importance of our better understaning of our water world. As a scuba diver myselfI so enjoyed the brilliant descriptions of this different dimension to our landbased existence. The description of the birth of the internet was fascinating and believable. So was the AI still to be discovered.Marianne Jordan
