Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes.--USA Today.
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the hea...
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.
Adie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned...
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that c...
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to...
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as...
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed forever by Clare....
Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town...
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News).
What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers...
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker
Das Time Magazine zhlt den Roman zu den fnf besten Bchern des Jahres. Erzhlt wird die Geschichte einer Wette: Kann ein Computer in zehn Monaten den Magister in Englisch ablegen? Zwei Kybernetiker treten gegeneinander an und machen einen Schriftsteller zum Coach der vernetzten Systeme, die eine Stimme und einen Namen erhalten. Doch als die Maschine fragt, was Liebe ist, macht er einen Fehler und verstrickt sich in eine Affre.
Das Time Magazine zhlt den Roman zu den fnf besten Bchern des Jahres. Erzhlt wird die Geschichte einer Wette: Kann ein Computer in zehn Monaten den Ma...
