Description
Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Paperback ? 21 September 2021
by Richard Powers
- Publisher : William Heinemann (21 September 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback ? 21 September 2021 : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : ?1785152645
- ISBN-13 : 978-1785152641
- Weight : 290 g
- Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.1 x 23.4 cm
Reviews
Average Rating:
3.9 rating based on 59,764 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1785152645
ISBN-13: 9781785152641
Goodreads: 56567240
Author(s): Publisher:
Published: 5/21/2021
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
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 grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
3.9 rating based on 59,764 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1785152645
ISBN-13: 9781785152641
Goodreads: 56567240
Author(s): Publisher:
Published: 5/21/2021
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
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 grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?