Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), June 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Powers's Gain attempts nothing less than a history of America as told through the tale of a singular enterprise. When three Boston merchant brothers coax from an Irish immigrant the secret of making fine soap, they set in motion..... More
William Morrow & Co, August 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Richard Powers' first novel since the much-heralded Prisoner's Dilemma, about which Maureen Howard wrote in The Nation: Magnificent. Set it up there in the stratosphere with the American novels we study like pictures in the sky. The lives of..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller, voted by "Time" as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by "Publishers Weekly," and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and..... More
William Morrow & Company, May 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Prisoner's Dilemma and The Gold Bug Variations featured the all-too-human characters and complex plotting that earned Powers two National Book Critics' Circle Award nominations. A hardened, overworked surgical resident rediscovers his compassion through..... More
Harper Perennial, April 2002. Trade Paperback. National Book Award Finalist From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment, an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power, joy, and anguish of storytelling. "If you have children or will..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. Reprint. Hardcover. An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. Trade Paperback. The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. Trade Paperback. The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in..... More
William Morrow & Company, April 1996. Paper Back. The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Playground. "Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist."-- New Republic Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history..... More
Harpercollins, December 1994. Trade Paperback. "Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding." --Philadelphia Inquirer The critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment. "A writer of blistering intellect . . . [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted -- and divided -- family, set against the backdrop of postwar America On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2025. Paper Back. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped..... More
