9780374161149
Generosity: An Enhancement
Richard Powers
ISBN 13: 9780374161149
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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Intrigued by an Algerian woman whose blissful demeanor contrasts with the horrific environment of her home country, Chicago teacher Russell Stone brings her to the attention of others who become equally entranced. By the National Book Award-winning author of
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"Powers considers...the evolutionary needs of the mind, our reasons for being and odds of survival, and the role of fiction in a nonfiction world....[I]t's another tremendous accomplishment from a writer who sees his species with brilliant uncomfortable clarity." (starred review)
Keir Graff, Booklist Upfront, 07/01/2009
Review:"Much of the tension behind Powers's idea-driven novels stems from the delicate balance between plot and concept, and he wisely adopts a voice that is--sometimes painfully--aware of the occasional strain....[He] strays from mere record to attempt an impossible task: to make the world right." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly, 07/06/2009
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Book Description: FSG. 1 Cloth(s), 2009. hard. Book Condition: New. When Russell Stone winds up teaching creative nonfiction in a Chicago arts college, in this follow-up to Richard Powers' National Book Award winner The Echo Maker, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles Russell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, her innately joyful personality comes to the attention of Thomas Kurton, the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement. What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence."Sixteen years after Peter Kramer's Listening to Prozac, Richard Powers has heard the alarming implications of treatments that let us buy better moods and personalities. His cerebral new novel offers a chilling examination of the life we're reengineering with our chromosomes and brain chemistry. Although it's tempting to call Generosity a dystopia about the pharmaceutical future in the tradition of Huxley's Brave New World, Powers sticks so closely to the state of current medical science and popular culture that this isn't so much a warning as a diagnosis. And as with any frightening diagnosis, you'll be torn between denial and a desperate urge to talk about it. With Generosity, Powers has performed a dazzling cross-disciplinary feat, linking the slippery nature of 'creative nonfiction' to the moral conundrums of genetic engineering. Although you might expect a novel so weighted with medical and philosophical arguments to flatten its characters into brittle stereotypes, ultimately that's the most impressive aspect of this meditation on happiness and humanness. As Generosity drives toward its surprising conclusion, these characters grow more complex and poignant, increasingly baffled by the challenge and the opportunity of remaking ourselves to our heart's content."—Washington Post Book World 296. Bookseller Inventory # 11918 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Her blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severly tested. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large. Bookseller Inventory # 003825 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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