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A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy. -- Newsday America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in. -- San Francisco Chronicle One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo. -- The Nation Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today. -- Chicago Tribune Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working--Pynchon and DeLillo excepted--who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications. -- Esquire

A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy.--Newsday America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in.--San Francisco Chronicle One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo.--The Nation Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today.-- Chicago Tribune Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working--Pynchon and DeLillo excepted--who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications.-- Esquire

"""A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy."" -- Newsday ""America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in."" -- San Francisco Chronicle ""One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo."" -- The Nation ""Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today."" -- Chicago Tribune ""Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working--Pynchon and DeLillo excepted--who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications."" -- Esquire"

""A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy."" -- Newsday ""America's most ambitious novelist . . . No one who becomes immersed in [his] poetry will walk out the way he or she came in."" -- San Francisco Chronicle ""One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo."" -- The Nation ""Powers hovers impossibly between extremes with a tightrope walker's perfect balance. He may be at once the smartest and the most warm-hearted novelist in America today."" -- Chicago Tribune ""Powers is a genuine artist, a thinker of rare synthetic gifts, maybe the only writer working--Pynchon and DeLillo excepted--who can render the intricate dazzle of it all and at the same time plumb its philosophical implications."" -- Esquire

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Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, and he has been a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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