Playground

PLAYGROUND follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity''s next great adventure. Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY and the Booker-shortlisted BEWILDERMENT. Praise for Richard Powers: ''Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer'' GUARDIAN ''Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality'' OBSERVER ''He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I''ve ever read. I''m in awe of his talent'' OPRAH WINFREY ''It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers''s message'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Refreshing, original and moving'' EVENING STANDARD

About the author

Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Powers
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2024
• EAN: 9781529154313
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-5431-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Sea Stories, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Sense of place, South Pacific, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Science fiction: near future, French Polynesia