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Bewilderment is a 2021 novel by Richard Powers, published on September 21, 2021, by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] It is Powers' thirteenth novel, his first since winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Overstory (2018). [2] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize.
Powers learned computer programming at Illinois as a user of PLATO and moved to Boston to work as a programmer. One Saturday in 1980, Powers saw the 1914 photograph "Young Farmers" by August Sander at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and was so inspired that he quit his job two days later to write a novel about the people in the photograph. [8]
1985 Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, HarperCollins ISBN 0-688-04201-5; 1988 Prisoner's Dilemma, McGraw Hill ISBN 0-07-050612-4; 1991 The Gold Bug Variations, HarperCollins ISBN 0-688-09891-6
The Overstory is a novel by American author Richard Powers, published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company.The book follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
The story begins with the authorial narrative voice of Mr P. first sighting the photograph taken in the months before the outbreak of World War I of three young boys in Germany, a photograph which is titled Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance and is being exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The novel follows the fictional fates of ...
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
The Darkest Minds, written by American author Alexandra Bracken, is a young adult dystopian fiction series consisting of four novels and several novellas compiled in Through the Dark. The series was first published in the United States in 2012 by Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide.
During the first book, Finding the Fox, Dax discovers his ability to shapeshift into a fox, and is whisked away from his hated stepfamily by the government. Dax is one of a number of COLAs (Children of Limitless Ability), young people who possess amazing supernatural powers. Some of his classmates are able to heal, move objects with their mind ...