
Bewilderment
A Novel
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Richard Powers
An Oprah's Book Club Selection
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the country's most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, there's something wrong....
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, even while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.
"Richard Powers is one of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent." (Oprah Winfrey)
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Critic reviews
"Richard Powers is one of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent." —Oprah Winfrey
"Extraordinary.…Powers’s insightful, often poetic prose draws us at once more deeply toward the infinitude of the imagination and more vigorously toward the urgencies of the real and familiar stakes rattling our persons and our planet." —Tracy K. Smith, New York Times Book Review (cover review)
"A heartrending tale of loss.…Powers continues to raise bold questions about the state of our world and the cumulative effects of our mistakes." —Heller McAlpin, NPR
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Depressing and overated
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We are in deep trouble, fellow humans. What are we going to do?
Loved it!
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Profoundly Bewildering
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BEAUTIFUL Loved it.!
Great read
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Loved it until the ending
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Breathtaking.
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Really great
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Update: what can I say that hasn’t been said eloquently about this thought provoking novel…a simple question… why are we going backwards asks the boy and I ask myself this very question every day. Remember the days of awe and wonder when the space missions took off? When Carl Sagan was a “influencer”? We embraced the other and weren’t fearful of differences but broadened our world by exploring the nuisances….read this book and try and look at it through Theo and Robin’s eyes!
Wonderment
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Well performed
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Wow! What a story!!
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