Richard Powers

Books on prize lists

• Bewilderment

  Written in English

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  Booker 2021 · Shortlist

  Bewilderment

  Bewilderment

  Richard Powers · 64 when first published

  Novel · 288 pages · Family, Nature

  AIAI-generated summary:A widowed astrobiologist raising his troubled, unusual nine-year-old son alone tries to keep the boy off psychiatric drugs as he grows ever more distressed about the state of the planet.

• The Overstory

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2019 · ★ Winner

  The Overstory

  The Overstory

  Richard Powers · 61 when first published

  Novel · 512 pages · Nature, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:Nine Americans, among them a botanist who finds that trees communicate, a game designer in a wheelchair and a student who briefly dies, are drawn by trees into the fight to save the last old-growth forests.

  Also: Booker 2018 shortlist

• The Echo Maker

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2007 · Finalist

  The Echo Maker

  The Echo Maker

  Richard Powers · 49 when first published

  Novel · Nature

  AIAI-generated summary:Near Kearney, Nebraska, a young man survives a mysterious crash on a straight country road, but when he wakes from his coma he insists that the sister who has come to look after him is an impostor.