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Playground: A Novel

By Richard Powers
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By Richard Powers
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers (The Overstory) weaves a rich story of four people joined on an island that is chosen as the site of a revolutionary — and ecologically destructive — project. This multi-layered novel about life in, out of and around the ocean riffs on ideas of playgrounds and paradise; computer games and AI; adventure, exploration, colonization and more.

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New Yorker and Vogue • Selected as "Fiction to Read this Fall" by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, People, and Parade • A Time, Vulture, Kirkus, and Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 • Named a Top Read of the Season by the AARP A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Pr...

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