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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third g ...Show more
Gain by Richard Powers
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a visionary novel about the failings of the American dream.'It's not possible for powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret AtwoodIn Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges in ...Show more
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Atlantic Books is proud to be publishing Richard Powers' backlist titles, re-jacketed in paperback. "Galatea 2.2" is a dazzling novel of ideas, that interrogates why we make the choices we do, and what constitutes the human soul. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United St ...Show more
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The OverstoryFrom one of America?s greatest writers, a thrilling and beautiful novel about why we make the choices we do - and, ultimately, about what makes us human After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up the po ...Show more
Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$89.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
"Living Modern" is the ultimate interiors sourcebook for stylish, design-conscious contemporary living. Understanding modern more as lifestyle than as style, it is all about clean lines, elegant colour combinations, artfully displaying design objects and open areas for lounging, cooking and dining. Feat ...Show more
Living Modern - The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$49.95 NZD
Category: Architecture and Design
Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Hun ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the ...Show more
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places?
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a kaleidoscopic novel about the wild freedom of the imagination.'Part of the joy of reading Powers over the years has been his capacity for revelation' Colson WhiteheadOn the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race ...Show more
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted ...Show more