Book by Powers Richard
Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...
Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold War empires collapse and the Berlin Wall falls, she retreats into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. In Beirut, English teacher Taimur Martin is held in solitary confinement by Islamic fundamentalists, where he must keep his mind whole by the force of his memory alone. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common, where the strands of this wildly inventive novel coalesce into one.
"Spectacular... Powers loves placing brilliant characters inside a fluorescent incubator, then watching ideas hatch on the page... Riveting" (New York Times Book Review)
"Richard Powers is one of the few writers who has taken on the challenge of Thomas Pynchon, creating a complex, unsentimental and simultaneously deeply moving world" (Red)
"There's no other way to say it: Richard Powers is a genius" (Time Out)
"One of the finest efforts from the massively gifted Powers, who again probes the fluid buffer between science and the imagination" (Kirkus Reviews)
"Superb...powers' seventh and perhaps greatest novel...one of the most astonishing feats I've ever seen in literature." (Washington Post)
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
Frais de port :
Gratuit
Vers Etats-Unis
Frais de port :
EUR 3,59
Vers Etats-Unis
Vendeur : SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 00075747513
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. 1st ed. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 467678-20
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. 1st ed. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 467677-6
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur mon0001274029
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Books Do Furnish A Room, Durham, NC, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. Pages unmarked. Dust jaclet moderately edgeworn. Binding square & firm. N° de réf. du vendeur 68976
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. N° de réf. du vendeur S_411987906
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Foxtrot Books, Yankton, SD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Book- Good. Dust Jacket- Good. 400 pp. All books are clean and unmarked unless stated. N° de réf. du vendeur 15939
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Solr Books, Skokie, IL, Etats-Unis
Etat : VeryGood. Nice clean copy. The pages are Like New! Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!. N° de réf. du vendeur 5D4WH7000OHZ_ns
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : R & B Diversions LLC, Stratford, WI, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. vg/vg or better first print/edition hardcover in mylar protected dust jacket. light soiling to page ends, o/w a very nice copy; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, dj price intact, first edition stated, nap. fiction hardcover. N° de réf. du vendeur 3927
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Vendeur : Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, Etats-Unis
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux:, 2000. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Good, 415 pp. The front panel of the cover has about a half-inch bump and related tear o/w a very tight copy. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Good, N° de réf. du vendeur 11608
Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)