Prisoner's Dilemma (Collier Fiction) - Softcover

Powers, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002036055X ISBN 13: 9780020360551

Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Eddie Hobson is quickly succumbing to a mysterious illness, and his children draw on the World War II veteran's dictaphone-recorded construction of an imaginary utopia for clues to their father's illness

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quizmaster, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness.

About the Author:

RICHARD POWERS is the author of ten novels. The Echo Maker won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 002036055X
• ISBN 13: 9780020360551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348