Richard Powers: Playground, Gebunden

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Praise for Richard Powers

The Overstory

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize ¿ #1 New York Times Bestseller

"It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it...It changed how I see things and that's always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading."
- Barack Obama

"Monumental...accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt...[A] gigantic fable of genuine truths."
- Barbara Kingsolver

"This ambitious novel soars up through the canopy of American literature and remakes the landscape of environmental fiction...[R]emarkable."
- Ron Charles, Washington Post

Bewilderment

An Oprah's Book Club Selection ¿ An Instant New York Times Bestseller

"Extraordinary...Powers's insightful, often poetic prose draws us at once more deeply toward the infinitude of the imagination and more vigorously toward the urgencies of the real and familiar stakes rattling our persons and our planet."
- Tracy K. Smith, New York Times Book Review, cover review

"A heartrending tale of loss...Powers continues to raise bold questions about the state of our world and the cumulative effects of our mistakes."
- Heller McAlpin, NPR

"Nothing short of transportive...Powers expertly grapples with existential questions, interspersing beatific rays of hope throughout the story like sunbeams."
- Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek