{"product_id":"plowing-the-dark-paperback","title":"Plowing the Dark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePowers Richard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers's \u003ci\u003ePlowing the Dark \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the rules of the novel and remains one his most daring works--a mesmerizing fiction explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join these two remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fall of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher recovering from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMention Richard Powers' name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence.--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRICHARD POWERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen novels, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Echo Maker\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762471764256,"sku":"9780312280123","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/acc8dddcb6860aa7874c846a660e800c_c24eb385-f686-4dec-86ad-9bbb857adb85.webp?v=1780221849","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/plowing-the-dark-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}