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Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1785152645
- ISBN 13
- 9781785152641
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Heinemann, UK, 2021. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 275 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Heinemann, UK, 2021. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN/EAN: 9781785152641. Inventory No: 24040038.. 9781785152641
Reviews
On Jun 21 2022, a reader said:
In the disclaimer, the book calls itself a work of fiction. "Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."
Well that is one huge coincidence, because I see great resemblance to current events. Around the story of the father and son, the book is a frighteningly accurate portrayal of the crumbling nature of society today, of the fragility of democracy, and of the short sightedness of the behaviour of humanity, ultimately destructive of not only our species but also uncountable species who share our world.
Though sometimes almost too realistic and sadly doom-filled, the story contains a shining thread of beauty, or hope; a beauty which, like life, is made only more breathtaking by the brevity of its existence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24040038
- Title
- Bewilderment
- Author
- Richard Powers
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1785152645
- ISBN 13
- 9781785152641
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Bewilderment
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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