Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work ... It soars and spins ... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty * New York Times * Extraordinary. Entertainment of a very high order ... One of the best books of the year * GQ * Powers ... can nail emotional complexities with precision, while using his characters to explore how emerging technologies might shape our lives * Daily Telegraph * An extraordinary and brilliant novel of ideas * Time Out * Tense and heartbreaking * Los Angeles Times * A splendid intellectual adventure ... a heartbreaking love story * Washington Post * Nothing less than brilliant * John Updike * Dazzling ... A cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling. A lively tour de force * New York Times *