Richard Powers

Tout commence par une photo, désormais célèbre : celle prise par August Sander de trois fermiers sur une route de campagne à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Pourquoi cette photo obsède-t-elle tant le narrateur, depuis qu'il l'a vue par hasard dans un musée de Detroit ? Peter Mays, un jeune journaliste de …

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut tree. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are …

The Gold Bug Variations is a double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes – social, moral, musical, spiritual – and he …

Prisoner's Dilemma is a 1988 novel by American author Richard Powers. It is the story of a dysfunctional family living in DeKalb County, Illinois. The novel explores the impact of history on contemporary life. The novel centres on the father of the family, Eddie Hobson, who is trying to find a solution to the …

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity’s next great adventure.When two brilliant misfits bond at an elite Chicago private school—one a white …

New York Times Bestseller "Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter." —Heller McAlpin, NPRIn Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in …

Operation Wandering Soul is a novel by American author Richard Powers. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. Operation Wandering Soul tells the story of a children's ward in "Carver Hospital" from the point of view of Richard Kraft, an overworked surgical resident, and therapist Linda Espera. It is set in …

Plowing the Dark is a novel by American writer Richard Powers. It follows two narrative threads; one of an American teacher turned Lebanese prisoner of war, the other the construction of a high-tech virtual reality simulator.

Le Temps où nous chantions est un roman de l'écrivain américain Richard Powers, publié aux États-Unis le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2003, traduit en français et publié en France en 2006 aux éditions du Cherche midi. Ce livre a été considéré comme le deuxième meilleur livre de l'année 2006 par le magazine littéraire Lire derrière Les …