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Operation Wandering Soul: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT
Richard Powers
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Description for Operation Wandering Soul: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT
Paperback. 'Vast and daring.. A fully realized and major work of art.' Chicago Tribune Reissued and re-jacketed in paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 387.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848871434
SKU
V9781848871434
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About Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), The Overstory (which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize) and Bewilderment, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a ... Read more
Reviews for Operation Wandering Soul: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT
In his ambition to define and dissect our culture, Powers is an agile younger brother to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon
Newsday
If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul... Dense in knowledge, rich in imagination, powerful in expression, [it] is bedtime ... Read more
Newsday
If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul... Dense in knowledge, rich in imagination, powerful in expression, [it] is bedtime ... Read more