Bewilderment A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
21.09.2021
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W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
304 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9780393881158
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
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 grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain...
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
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Good, but I expect more from Richard Powers
"The Overstory" is one of the greatest novels I have ever read and "The Echo Maker", the first novel by Richard Powers that I read, resonated with me a lot as well. "Bewilderment" is closer in scope and in theme and in impact to "Generosity". Both "Bewilderment" and "Generosity" are good novels, but by now I expect brilliant from Richard Powers. Unlike several other readers it is especially the far-away planets and their rules that I find extremely gripping. Powers' powers of imagination are among the greatest in contemporary fiction, and that is where he can really show that. In comparison, I also found the relationship of widower Theo and his possibly autistic son Robin well-written and occasionally heart-breaking, but it didn't seem to showcase Powers' strengths as much. Especially since the other characters remain quite one-dimensional - it may, of course, be intentional that the far-away planets are given more personality than the people who are close by. "Bewilderment" will probably still be one of the best novels to appear this year, which after some consideration I still gave it five stars instead of four, but within Powers' oeuvre it will likely be just a footnote.
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