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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third g ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR 'Extraordinary' New York Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Heartfelt' Guardian Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other plan ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
Gain by Richard Powers
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a visionary novel about the failings of the American dream.'It's not possible for powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret AtwoodIn Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges in ...Show more
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The OverstoryFrom one of America?s greatest writers, a thrilling and beautiful novel about why we make the choices we do - and, ultimately, about what makes us human After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up the po ...Show more
Making House - Designers at Home by Dominic Bradbury; Richard Powers (Photographer)
45.00 AUD
Category: Interior Design
Making House: Designers at Home features 20 houses and apartments by leading interior, furniture, and product designers - homes by designers, as designed for themselves - including the abodes of such well-known figures as Jonathan Adler, Tord Boontje, Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Stephen Sills, Marc Newso ...Show more
Making L. A. Modern Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer by Michael Boyd (Editor); Richard Powers (Photographer); Ray Kappe (Foreword by)
140.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
This is the definitive volume on Craig Ellwood, a visionary architect, designer, and tastemaker often called the "California Mies van der Rohe."Craig Ellwood, "the Cary Grant of architecture," was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for his exquisitely ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the ...Show more
Playground by Richard Powers
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human. 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 ...Show more
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a kaleidoscopic novel about the wild freedom of the imagination.'Part of the joy of reading Powers over the years has been his capacity for revelation' Colson WhiteheadOn the west coast of America, virtual reality researchers race ...Show more
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted ...Show more
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory From one of America's greatest writers, an enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. Stuart Ressler, a bri ...Show more