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Biographical note
Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his subsequent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.<b>Extraordinary</b>. Entertainment of a very high order…<b> One of the best books of the year</b>
GQ
Dazzling... A cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling. A lively tour de force
New York Times
Powers...can nail emotional complexities with precision, while using his characters to explore how emerging technologies might shape our lives
Daily Telegraph
It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book... If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century, which writer would he be? He’d probably be the Herman Melville of <i>Moby-Dick</i>. His picture is that big
- Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books
An extraordinary and brilliant novel of ideas
Time Out
Tense and heartbreaking
Los Angeles Times
An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty
New York Times
A splendid intellectual adventure [and] a heartbreaking love story
Washington Post
Nothing less than brilliant