{"product_id":"plowing-the-dark-richard-powers-9780312280123","title":"Plowing the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers's \u003ci\u003ePlowing the Dark \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the rules of the novel and remains one his most daring works--a mesmerizing fiction explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join these two remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fall of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher recovering from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMention Richard Powers' name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence.--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Powers, Powers Richard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312280122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312280123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/23\/2001 pg. 28","brand":"Richard Powers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046965014783,"sku":"9780312280123","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1139f08b-2b9c-42f5-ba08-cc409016198d.jpg?v=1684987507","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plowing-the-dark-richard-powers-9780312280123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}