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Playground: A Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Release Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9781324086031
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324086033
ISBN-13
9781324086031
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13065001102
Product Key Features
Book Title
Playground
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, Small Town & Rural, Literary, Political, Sea Stories
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Vivid and ambitious ... a love letter to the natural world.... Playground is ravishing in its descriptions of an underwater universe as fragile as it is ancient and unyielding., Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep, and alive., Ambitious, rapturous... A transcendentalist deep dive of a novel... What a lush, opaque world Powers conjures... A fabulous exploration., Evocatively nuanced.... Rhapsodic with wonder, electric with cautionary facts and insights, Powers' profound and involving novel illuminates the conundrums of human nature., An epic drama of AI, neocolonialism, and oceanography ... dazzling. ... [T]he elegance of [Powers's] prose, the scope of his ambition, and the exacting reverence with which he writes about the imperiled world serve as reminders of why he ranks among America's foremost novelists. ... Readers will be awed., Ultra-vivid, wildly gripping, and visionary... Powers evokes [the ocean's] ever more fragile splendor with glimmering schools of sensual detail., A novel of spectacular thematic scope and surreal drama... The author's genius shows in his formidable descriptive talents and the graceful clarity of his densely woven plot... Powers meticulously sets the stage with vivid, immersive details to ignite the readers imagination., Evocatively nuanced.... Rhapsodic with wonder, electric with cautionary facts and insights, Powers profound and involving novel illuminates the conundrums of human nature., Glorious...a transcendent novel about love....Powers's extraordinary novels are a rebuttal to the notion that what stirs the mind can't also stir the heart., A richly layered story that examines the intersection of technology, nature, and personal relationships. Powers' signature blend of intellectual depth and compelling storytelling shines through... Thought-provoking literature that engages both the mind and heart., History unspools in this luminous journey that interweaves a 3,000-year-old board game, AI and floating cities....all-around delightful., Vivid and ambitious...a love letter to the natural world....Playground is ravishing in its descriptions of an underwater universe as fragile as it is ancient and unyielding., Powers is a master of taking important topics of our times--from threats to our oceans and climate change to AI--and turning them into riveting and fiercely relevant books imbued with psychological insight and a deep awe for nature. This eloquent dance of the scientific and emotional makes him one of our finest storytellers. Playground is brilliant, captivating, and important--and the best book I've read this year., [Powers is] a grand old oak of American letters: a towering, sturdy figure often overlooked for flashier species.... Playground is an enchanting entry point to his work that swings open easily.... Reminds, with a spirit of fun and wonder, why the sea -- an alien planet within a planet -- is so very worth sustained attention... The late twist... whorled as a seashell, may leave even the highest VO2 max reader gasping a little for air.... This is a novel that pries us from our daily hourglass, forcing a hard focus on the sand., Richly hued... Gorgeous... No author has done more to turn our gaze outward to the mysteries of the universe, above our heads and below our feet., Compelling, with fine writing on friendship and its loss and on the awe and delight the ocean inspires.... An engaging, eloquent message for this fragile planet., A characterful, capacious and engaging novel, distilling subjects as diverse as oceanography, climate change, the legacies of colonialism and the arc of a lifelong friendship into an exhilaratingly entangled narrative in which Powers' unparalleled gifts for revealing the magic and mystery of the natural world are on full display., Prepare to be awed... A mind-blowing reflection on what it means to live on a dying planet... I wasn't prepared for the astonishing resolution that Powers delivers. In the now-vast library of fiction and nonfiction books reminding us of the planet's imperiled condition, I can't think of another novel that treats the Earth's plight with such an expansive and disorienting vision... Powers manages to entwine our longing for friendship, paradise and immortality with the algorithms of artificial intelligence that surpass all understanding., An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways--gripping, alarming, and uplifting., You'll never look at the ocean the same way again. Playground isn't merely a great American novel, but a magnificent one.... Increasingly gripping... brilliant on the complications of friendship... incandescently beautiful... In a word: wow., Soaringly imaginative yet firmly grounded... [Playground] deals with the most pressing issues of our time in the most wrenchingly human terms., History unspools in this luminous journey that interviews a 3,000-year-old board game, AI and floating cities., Brims with love for humanity and the planet.... [Powers] nimbly hopscotches between the wonders of nature and the marvels and dangers of cutting-edge science.
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning * Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue * Selected as "Fiction to Read this Fall" by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, People, and Parade * A Time, Vulture, Kirkus, and Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 * Named a Top Read of the Season by the AARP A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment., Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can., Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
LC Classification Number
PS3566.O92P5 2024
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