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The National Book Award-Winning Novel from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of THE OVERSTORY "Wise and elegant...The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition...Powers accomplishes something magnificent."-Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car acciden...

Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Overstory (which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize). He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a four-time NBCC finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Nella variegata fauna di giovani attirati a Chicago dal corso di scrittura creativa tenuto da Russell Stone compare un giorno una giovane rifugiata algerina dalla presenza inquietantemente luminosa. Thassa Amzwar è scampata agli orrori della guerra civile nel suo Paese, eppure irradia una contagiosa e costante joie de vivre. Tanto che i suoi compagni l'hanno subito ribattezzata Miss Generosity. La sua vitalità, la sua deliziosa esuberanza non ...

Originally published: Tulsa, OK: Virgil W. Hensley, Inc., 1988.

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Il giorno di Pasqua del 1939, durante lo storico concerto di Marion Anderson davanti al Lincoln Memorial di Washington, David Strom, uno scienziato tedesco emigrato, incontra Delia Daley, una giovane di colore che studia canto. L'amore per la musica è quello che li attrae e poco dopo, a dispetto delle circostanze, si sposano, decidendo di dar vita a una famiglia "aldilà della razza, aldilà dei tempi". I loro tre figli dovranno affrontare la br...

Galatea 2.2 is a dazzling novel of ideas, that interrogates why we make the choices we do, and what constitutes the human soul.

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On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven year old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly ...

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven year old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, who eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly ...

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.<

Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Overstory (which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize). He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a four-time NBCC finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted-and divided-family, set against the backdrop of postwar AmericaOn Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and-against all odds and better judgment-they marry. They vow to raise their ...

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt once referred to the Apache Trail as "one of the most spectacular best-worth-seeing sights of the world." The once narrow, ancient foot trail built as a supply road for the construction of Roosevelt Dam has now evolved into a state highway with majestic scenic vistas and historical grandeur. Even in the 1920s, the Southern Pacific Railroad touted this road as a "must-see side trip." Each year, thousands of people ventu...

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A magnificent novel that probes the meaning of love, science, music and art, by the showstopping author of The Echo Makers. Reissued and rejacketed along with Powers' entire backlist. 'The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow... An outright marvel.' Washington Post

On the heels of 9/11, historian Powers shows how the FBI has arrived at a critical juncture and why its future has become gravely imperiled.

This book can serve as an introduction to students interested in learning the techniques used in developing mathematical models of physical phenomenon in polymers, or it can furnish the background information to the experienced professional desiring to broaden his/her knowledge of polymers. The senior author presented material in this book to students interested in learning the fundamental mathematics underlying many areas of polymer physics a...

This book can serve as an introduction to students interested in learning the techniques used in developing mathematical models of physical phenomenon in polymers, or it can furnish the background information to the experienced professional desiring to broaden his/her knowledge of polymers. The senior author presented material in this book to students interested in learning the fundamental mathematics underlying many areas of polymer physics a...