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Richard Powers - Bewilderment (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The Sunday Times Bestseller.
Shortlisted for The 2021 Booker Prize.
An Oprah's Book Club Selection.
The author of The Overstory.
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old.
His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. But after a violent outburst from Robin at school, the strength of their close bond will be tested to its limits.
What can a father do, when those around him refuse to understand his rare and troubled child?
And how can he reveal to his boy the truth about our beautiful, bewildered world?
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Families & Sagas
- Published : 2021 (This Edition 2022 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9781529115253
- SKU : B003302
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Heart-rending' - Oprah Winfrey.
'The love between son and father has an emotional truth that wrings the heart' - The Guardian.
'This book had me in tears' - Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.
'Refreshing, original and moving' - Evening Standard.
'Powers has the rare gift of being able to deal with big ideas while keeping you interested in the lives and emotions of his characters.' - Sebastian Faulks.
'A heartfelt cry for climate awareness, with fantastical digressions to other planets and a rueful celebration of our own.' - The Guardian.
'It's a wonderful story - taut, touching and wholehearted.' - Psychologies.
'Intense and disturbing.' - Mail on Sunday.
'A beautiful and thoughtfully written novel.' - Good Housekeeping.
'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality . . . channels both the cosmic sublime and that of the vast American outdoors, resting confidently in a lineage with Thoreau and Whitman, Dillard and Kerouac. Sorrowing awe is Bewilderment's primary tone, and its many remarkable scenes are controlled with high novelistic intelligence.' - The Observer.
'It's deftly crafted, packs an emotional punch, and Powers's urgent environmental message, delivered by the Greta Thunberg-like Robin, comes through loud and clear.' - Daily Mail.
'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' - Sunday Times.
The Author
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.