Description
What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780312429751
ISBN10: 0312429754
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/03/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780312429751
ISBN10: 0312429754
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
About the Author
RICHARD POWERS is the author of a dozen novels, including The Overstory, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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