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Bewilderment
Bewilderment
Author: Richard Powers
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393881141
ISBN-10: 0393881148
Publication Date: 9/21/2021
Pages: 304
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  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 31
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Beautifully written, but the book ultimately fails because it becomes overly political, polemical and cliched in its last portion. Too bad.
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A powerful, important, well-written and sad story of a widower raising his sensitive young son in our age of enviormental destruction.


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