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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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
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
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Atlantic Books is proud to be publishing Richard Powers' backlist titles, re-jacketed in paperback. "Galatea 2.2" is a dazzling novel of ideas, that interrogates why we make the choices we do, and what constitutes the human soul. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United St ...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
Generosity by Richard Powers
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Richard Powers is one of America's most important novelists and Generosity is his most exuberantly brilliant book yet, in which he dares to imagine what might happen when science discovers the genes for happiness... When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly lum ...Show more
Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"Living Modern" is the ultimate interiors sourcebook for stylish, design-conscious contemporary living. Understanding modern more as lifestyle than as style, it is all about clean lines, elegant colour combinations, artfully displaying design objects and open areas for lounging, cooking and dining. Feat ...Show more
Living Modern - The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$39.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Hun ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 attention of Homeland Security. Panicked ...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
Orfeo: A Novel by Richard Powers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big," wrote Margaret Atwood (New York Review of Books). Indeed, since his debut in 1985 with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers has been astonishing read ...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
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck 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 com ...Show more