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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted ...Show more
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory From one of America's greatest writers, an enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. Stuart Ressler, a bri ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Autumn makes me think of leaves, which makes me think of trees, which makes me think of The Overstory,the best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period.? - Ann Patchett'It's a masterpiece.' - Tim Winton'It?s not possible fo ...Show more
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by ...Show more
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1939 at Marion Anderson's great protest concert in Washington, a German-Jewish -migr- physicist and a young black contralto are brought together by concern over a lost child. They eventually marry and have three children, bringing them up in a hot-house atmosphere of music and maths, hoping to raise ...Show more
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of ...Show more