Booker 2021: Richard Powers' Bewilderment pleads for the earth

Richard Powers returns to the Booker shortlist with his 13th novel, Bewilderment. PHOTOS: DEAN D. DIXON, HUTCHINSON
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By Richard Powers
Hutchinson/Paperback/278 pages/$30.94/Available here
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Acclaimed eco-fiction author Richard Powers, 64, has won praise for his ability to alchemise urgent science and environment issues into narratives that are accessible to the common everyday reader.

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