That's just one nugget of wisdom in Richard Powers' latest novel, a heartrending tale of loss. Bewilderment is a smaller, less complex book than his Pulitzer Prize-winning magnum opus, The...
Bewilderment by Richard Powers - Goodreads
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? 278 pages, Hardcover.
Bewilderment - Harvard Review
Bewilderment by Richard Powers. reviewed by Hamilton Cain. Among the glories of an East Tennessee childhood are the Smoky Mountains that straddle the North Carolina state line. Three hundred million years ago, they loomed taller than the Himalayas. Since then, they have eroded to a spine of rounded summits tiered with oak and hickory.
Book Review: ‘Bewilderment,’ by Richard Powers - The New York ...
“Bewilderment” is equal parts earnest opinion-page essay (humans + nature = yikes) and middling Netflix science fiction product (boy reconnects with dead mother through high tech).
Book Review | ‘Bewilderment’ by Richard Powers - The Santa ...
Richard Powers’snovel Bewilderment is — despite its portrayal of a mother and son who are capable of ecstatic connection with the natural world — one of the most depressing books I’ve read in a while.
BEWILDERMENT - Kirkus Reviews
Astrobiologist Theo Byrne, 45, looks for life in outer space while his 9-year-old son, Robin, seeks to protect endangered animals on Earth. Both are still grieving for the boy’s mother, Alyssa, an animal rights activist who died in a car accident two years ago as she swerved to avoid hitting an opossum.
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The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest book, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human ...
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TheoByrne works as an astrophysicist trying to find life on other planets, and in passages he relates to his son Robin at night, he imagines wildly different possible scenarios. Robin, turning...
'Bewilderment,' by Richard Powers book review - The ...
Richard Powers’s poignant new novel, “ Bewilderment,” is a cri de cœur. Like his recent masterpiece, “The Overstory,” which won a Pulitzer Prize, “Bewilderment” deplores humanity’s destruction...
Book Review: Bewilderment by Richard Powers - BookBrowse
In Powers' poignant 13th novel, a widowedastrobiologist struggles with raising his troubled son in a time of political and environmental crisis. In 2019, Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for The Overstory, a sprawling novel whose characters are obsessed with protecting magnificent trees.
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That's just one nugget of wisdom in Richard Powers' latest novel, a heartrending tale of loss. Bewilderment is a smaller, less complex book than his Pulitzer Prize-winning magnum opus, The...
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? 278 pages, Hardcover.
Bewilderment by Richard Powers. reviewed by Hamilton Cain. Among the glories of an East Tennessee childhood are the Smoky Mountains that straddle the North Carolina state line. Three hundred million years ago, they loomed taller than the Himalayas. Since then, they have eroded to a spine of rounded summits tiered with oak and hickory.
“Bewilderment” is equal parts earnest opinion-page essay (humans + nature = yikes) and middling Netflix science fiction product (boy reconnects with dead mother through high tech).
Richard Powers’s novel Bewilderment is — despite its portrayal of a mother and son who are capable of ecstatic connection with the natural world — one of the most depressing books I’ve read in a while.
Astrobiologist Theo Byrne, 45, looks for life in outer space while his 9-year-old son, Robin, seeks to protect endangered animals on Earth. Both are still grieving for the boy’s mother, Alyssa, an animal rights activist who died in a car accident two years ago as she swerved to avoid hitting an opossum.
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest book, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human ...
Theo Byrne works as an astrophysicist trying to find life on other planets, and in passages he relates to his son Robin at night, he imagines wildly different possible scenarios. Robin, turning...
Richard Powers’s poignant new novel, “ Bewilderment,” is a cri de cœur. Like his recent masterpiece, “The Overstory,” which won a Pulitzer Prize, “Bewilderment” deplores humanity’s destruction...
In Powers' poignant 13th novel, a widowed astrobiologist struggles with raising his troubled son in a time of political and environmental crisis. In 2019, Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for The Overstory, a sprawling novel whose characters are obsessed with protecting magnificent trees.