Plowing the dark
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0374234612
Physical Desc:
415 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
Pitkin County Library
FICTION P8885pL
Description
A dazzling new novel by the author of Galatea 2.2 and Gain 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. Adie 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. A mesmerizing fiction that explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save, Plowing the Dark recasts the rules of the novel and stands as Richard Powers's most daring work to date.
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Street Date:
0005
Language:
English
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APA Citation (style guide)
Powers, R. (2000). Plowing the dark. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-. 2000. Plowing the Dark. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-, Plowing the Dark. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
MLA Citation (style guide)Powers, Richard. Plowing the Dark. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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