Bøker av Richard Powers

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

PLAYGROUND follows four lives âEUR" a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer âEUR" that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanityâEUR(TM)s next great adventure. Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY and the Booker-shortlisted BEWILDERMENT. Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, TWICE BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHORShe had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human.Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three thousand- year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to green light the project or turn the seasteaders away.Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.Praise for Richard Powers:'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

A novel of compassion and and imagination from the virtuosic Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Powers. Prisoner's Dilemma tells the story of the triumph of the mind over infirmity.

The story of an enduring image influenced by forgotten histories, and a novel of obsession in the age of technology.

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this is a stunning novel about childhood innocence amid a nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern America

Astrobiologen Theo Byrne forsker på forutsetningene for liv på andre planeter. I sitt eget strever Theo med å komme over tapet av sin store kjærlighet Aly, som døde i en bilulykke, og med den ni år gamle sønnen Robin. Robin er full av energi og ville ideer, men han kan også sitte i timevis og tegne kunstferdige bilder - og han engasjerer seg voldsomt for alt som lever i verden. Robin er imidlertid også nær ved å bli utvist fra skolen, der han kjeder seg og havner i trøbbel hele tida.Når legene truer med å medisinere gutten mot diagnoser Theo mener Robin ikke fortjener, går han med på at sønnen skal være med på en eksperimentell behandlingsform hos Dr. Currier. Gjennom såkalt neurofeedback vil Dr. Currier eksponere Robin for moras hjerneaktivitet, som han «tok opp» som en del av det samme eksperimentet. Robin vokser enormt på «møtene» med sin avdøde mors tanke- og følelsesmønster, han blir en ny gutt. Men så kutter myndighetene finansieringen av forskningsprosjektet, og Robins verden raser sammen.Rådløshet er en original, men samtidig på mange måter klassisk roman som samler mange temaer: Hva kan en alenefar gjøre når den foreskrevne løsningen på innordningsproblemene til et begavet barn er medisinering? Hva svarer vi voksne når barna ber om en forklaring på hvorfor vi holder på med å utrydde oss selv og planeten vi bor på? Kan kunstig intelligens brukes til å kartlegge levende personers tanker og følelser, for dermed å holde dem levende for de etterlatte?Richard Powers' Booker-nominerte roman er en uforglemmelig far-sønn-fortelling som forener brennende aktuelle spørsmål om kunstig intelligens og ung miljøaktivisme med evige spørsmål om utenforskap, savn og sjalusi.

"The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry." - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted-and divided-family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and-against all odds and their better judgment-they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, "whose voice could make heads of state repent," follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...

National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. ?The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow . . . An outright marvel.? ?Washington PostStuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes?social, moral, musical, spiritual?and he falls in love with a member of his research team. Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery: Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire. The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize?winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.

This book celebrates inventive and inspired homes that are at once original and the product of visionary designers at the height of their powers.

Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college.

Generosity is Richard Powers' most exuberant novel yet, in which he dares to imagine what might happen when science discovers the genes for happiness...

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.