Plowing The Dark

Author: Richard Powers

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Price : 26.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780099286721
Publisher : Random House
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.36
Publication date : February 2002
Dimensions : 198mm X 130mm X 26mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Dewey classification : 813.54
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 415
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Description

In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places?

Author description

Richard Powers is a recipient of a MacArthur award (commonly referred to as 'genius grants'). His latest novel, Galatea 2.2, was nominated for the US National Book Critics Circle Award.

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