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Bewilderment

by Richard Powers
Bewilderment

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ISBN13: 9780393881141
ISBN10: 0393881148
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Powers’s author note made me cry, and its simple, astonishing empathy for children and the natural world only strengthens with each page of this beautifully wrought, difficult story about a loving father and raging son grieving for the Earth and its inhabitants. Recommended By Rhianna W., Powells.com

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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain...

With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

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"Writing with the same remarkable attention to detail found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory, Powers has created a world and characters that will suck readers in and keep them fixed until the literally bitter end." The Library Journal

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"A touching novel that offers a vital message with uncommon sympathy and intelligence." Kirkus Reviews

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"With soaring descriptions and forthright observations about our planet and the life it supports, Bewilderment is centered on a devoted father-and-son relationship, but it also offers rich commentary on the complex, often mystifying intersections between science, popular culture, and politics." Booklist, starred review

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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 in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Marci San Francisco , March 04, 2022 (view all comments by Marci San Francisco)
Bewilderment grabbed me and wouldn't let go. Richard Powers is a powerful writer, and I had thoroughly enjoyed his Pulitzer prize-winning book The Overstory, but Bewilderment is a whole other matter. It felt so personally intense that I found it impossible not to feel part of the small family struggling through such wrenching experiences, even as I recognized their story portraying our threatened planet. Even the tragic ending felt exactly right, somehow. Highly recommended.

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W. W. Norton & Company
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Richard Powers

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