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Plowing the Dark
Richard Powers
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Description for Plowing the Dark
Paperback. In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY 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... Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold War empires collapse and the Berlin Wall falls, she retreats ... Read more
FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY 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... Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold War empires collapse and the Berlin Wall falls, she retreats ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099286721
SKU
KKD0002081
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Richard Powers
Richard Powers is a the author of ten novels, including Galatea 2.2 and The Gold Bug Variations, both of which were nominated for the US National Book Critics Circle Award; Gain, and Operation Wandering Soul, which were nominated for the US National Book Award for Fiction; and The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was ... Read more
Reviews for Plowing the Dark
"Spectacular... Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page... Riveting"
New York Times Book Review
"Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world"
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"There's no other way to say ... Read more
New York Times Book Review
"Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world"
Red
"There's no other way to say ... Read more