

Plowing the Dark
Author: Richard Powers
Narrator: Michael Braun, Morgan Hallett
Unabridged: 18 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/21/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Richard Powers
Narrator: Michael Braun, Morgan Hallett
Unabridged: 18 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/21/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Richard Powers is the author of New York Times bestseller Bewilderment; The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; among many other novels. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
The next book in my challenge to read all the novels of Richard Powers this year was a challenge! He uses two parallel stories to investigate how we perceive and navigate reality, imagination, confinement, freedom and, as always, modern society. One of his stories is set on Puget Sound on the northw......more
If you are interested in virtual reality and the rigors of prolonged captivity (of an isolated kidnap victim) this is the perfect book for you. If it's just one or the other this book will likely suffice. Powers is not my kind of writers, the book has litle humor in it, is ultimately predictable (or......more