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Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393881148
- ISBN 13
- 9780393881141
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton Company, 2021. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed by Richard Powers on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to the spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.95) faint wear to spine tail, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 278 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.
Astrobiologist and widower Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin. Although Robin is a warm, kind boy who enjoys painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals, he's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. With the hope of treating his troubled son without the use of psychoactive drugs, Theo turns to an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control — one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain.
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
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3728
- Title
- Bewilderment
- Author
- Richard Powers
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393881148
- ISBN 13
- 9780393881141
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 278
- Size
- 6 x 9.25
- Keywords
- astrobiologist, neurofeedback
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
Terms of Sale
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Number Line
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- Brodart
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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