- Booker Prize 2021 · Shortlist
Bewilderment
Bewilderment
Richard Powers (born 1957)
English editions
Written in EnglishBewilderment
Penguin · United Kingdom · 29 August 2024 · Paperback · 336 pages
Bewilderment
W. W. Norton & Company · United States · 21 September 2021 · Hardcover · 288 pages
Bewilderment
Hutchinson Heinemann · United Kingdom · 21 September 2021
Bewilderment
W. W. Norton & Company · United States · 1 November 2022 · Paperback · 304 pages
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Theo Byrne studies the possibility of life on other worlds and, since his wife's death, has been raising their nine-year-old son, Robin, alone. Robin is warm and funny, determined to rescue the planet, and he paints endangered animals for hours. Yet his school is about to throw him out for striking a classmate with a metal flask. Theo refuses to put him on psychoactive drugs. Instead he takes Robin on imagined journeys to other planets, and he tries an experimental treatment based on neurofeedback that trains the boy on recordings of his late mother's brain. The book asks how a parent can tell a child the truth about a planet in danger.
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About the book
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- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Nature (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2021
- Author's age
- 64 when first published
- ISBN
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9780393881141 (W. W. Norton & Company, United States)
9781324036142 (W. W. Norton & Company, United States)
9781804951668 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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