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ISBN: 9781848871274 - Generosity Generosity
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871279  ISBN13: 9781848871274
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 2011
Generosity is Richard Powers' most exuberant novel yet, in which he dares to imagine what might happen when science discovers the genes for happiness... When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous... More

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ISBN: 9781848871441 - Galatea 2.2 Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871449  ISBN13: 9781848871441
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2010
After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up the position of Humanist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist... More

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ISBN: 9781848871403 - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871406  ISBN13: 9781848871403
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2010
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This novel focuses on this haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I. More

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ISBN: 9780099453833 - Time of Our Singing Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 0099453835  ISBN13: 9780099453833
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Feb 2004
Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah... More

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ISBN: 9780099506027 - The Echo Maker The Echo Maker
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 0099506025  ISBN13: 9780099506027
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 Dec 2007
Shattered by Mark's refusal to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for brain disorders. But what Gerald discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a... More

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ISBN: 9781848871410 - Prisoner's Dilemma Prisoner's Dilemma
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871414  ISBN13: 9781848871410
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 2010
A novel of compassion and and imagination from the virtuosic author of The Echo Maker, Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Powers. Prisoner's Dilemma tells the story of the triumph of the mind over infirmity. Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr. More

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ISBN: 9781848871434 - Operation Wandering Soul Operation Wandering Soul
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871430  ISBN13: 9781848871434
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 2010
'Vast and daring - A fully realized and major work of art.' Chicago Tribune Reissued and re-jacketed in paperback. In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band ... More

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ISBN: 9780099286721 - Plowing the Dark Plowing the Dark
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 0099286726  ISBN13: 9780099286721
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Feb 2002
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. More

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ISBN: 9781848871427 - The Gold Bug Variations The Gold Bug Variations
Richard Powers

ISBN10: 1848871422  ISBN13: 9781848871427
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2010
A magnificent novel that probes the meaning of love, science, music and art, by the showstopping author of The Echo Makers. 'The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow - An outright marvel.' Washington Post The Gold Bug... More

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ISBN: 9780500516300 - New Paris Style New Paris Style
Danielle Miller, Richard Powers

ISBN10: 0500516308  ISBN13: 9780500516300
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Sep 2012
Looks into the private dwellings of the creative talents in Paris individuals from the music, fashion, design, film and art worlds. This title includes coverage that ranges from elevated bohemianism of the Left Bank to the trendy Marais and edgier... More