For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Richard Powers - fan,
a like new, signed 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Richard Powers
Bewilderment
Hutchinson Heinemann, London / UK, 2021
Your copy of Richard Powers (Pulitzer Prize 2019 for "The Overstory") "Bewilderment" is an early copy without the "The 2021 Booker Prize"-tag which it is shortlisted for.
"Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to
search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also
the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is
funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores
animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on
the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's
face with a metal thermos.
What can a father do, when the only
solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on
psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an
explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own
destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets,
while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save
this one." (penguin.co.uk)
"Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow
and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, The
Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for
the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains."
(penguin.co.uk)