by Richard Powers · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099286721
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«Plowing the Dark» is Richard Powers's science fiction and literary fiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (432 pages, in English).
In a Puget Sound laboratory, a team creates the Cavern, a white room convertible into a jungle or Byzantine cathedral. In Beirut, an American hostage is chained in an empty room. Artist Adie Klarpol takes refuge in the cyberrealities she creates as the Berlin Wall falls; her imagination eventually meets that of the hostage.
Originally published in 2000; this Vintage edition is from 2002.
For fans of literary fiction and science fiction interested in virtual reality, technology, and the power of imagination.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
