Richard Powers Playground Hardback Book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AND BOOKERSHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENTIs 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 PERCIVAL EVERETTAn extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways gripping, alarming and uplifting EMMA DONOGHUERafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a threethousandyearold board game. It sets them up for life Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todds work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the worlds first aqualungs Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. All of these people meet on the historyscarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanitys next great adventure a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the everunfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, still find themselves in competition Todd unravels while working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new project on their shores and... | Richard Powers Playground Hardback Book