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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Richard Powers

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English
Penguin (Cornerstone)
12 February 2026
The first novel from the Pultizer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment

'An outstanding novel' Observer

'A writer of blistering intellect' Los Angeles Times

'Unexpected and richly imaginative' London Review of Books

'A first novel of intricate merit ... A rich imagination glitters throughout' Mail on Sunday In the spring of 1914, German photographer August Sander captures a haunting image- three young men on their way to a country dance, themselves unknowingly on the brink of the First World War. This photograph becomes the focal point of Richard Powers' compelling debut novel.

The fate of the three farmers is intertwined with two contemporary stories- a museum-goer becomes obsessed with the photograph, and a young writer in Boston discovers he has a personal connection to it. Seamlessly blended together, these three narratives depict a century scarred by savagery and fired by progress.
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Imprint:   Penguin (Cornerstone)
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9781804952177
ISBN 10:   1804952176
Pages:   368
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

An outstanding novel * Observer * A first novel of intricate merit... A rich imagination glitters throughout * Mail on Sunday * Unexpected and richly imaginative ... Full of intellectual descriptions and stylistic diversions * London Review of Books * A writer of blistering intellect ... [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers * Los Angeles Times * 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 -- Margaret Atwood


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