If there’s any question about Richard Powers being the greatest living American novelist, the cerebral Playground settles it definitively.
Powers has published 14 novels, including 2018’s Pulitzer winner, The Overstory, about humanity’s destruction of forests. Turning this time to the oceans, Powers harks back to his childhood fascination with the sea...
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