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New York Times Bestseller

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, according to the Washington Post and AARP • A Time Must-Read Book of the Year • An NPR "Books We Love" Pick • An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

"Prepare to be awed.… [A]stonishing." —Ron Charles, Washington Post

The magisterial novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

About the Author :
Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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"[Powers is] a grand old oak of American letters: a towering, sturdy figure often overlooked for flashier species.… Playground is an enchanting entry point to his work that swings open easily.… [R]eminds, with a spirit of fun and wonder, why the sea—an alien planet within a planet—is so very worth sustained attention.… [T]he late twist…whorled as a seashell, may leave even the highest VO2 max reader gasping a little for air.… This is a novel that pries us from our daily hourglass, forcing a hard focus on the sand." "A characterful, capacious and engaging novel.… Powers’ unparalleled gifts for revealing the magic and mystery of the natural world are on full display." "Ravishing.… [Playground] implores us to open ourselves to the ingenuity of life beyond the human." "Ambitious, rapturous.… A transcendentalist deep dive of a novel.… A fabulous exploration." "Exhilarating.… [I]ntoxicating.… [A] sprawling parable of a book." "Unexpected and genuinely fascinating.… Ingenious tricks and clever devices abound in Powers’s fiction, but never before with the provocative implications of the turn in Playground." "Richly hued.… [G]orgeous.… [N]o author has done more to turn our gaze outward to the mysteries of the universe, above our heads and below our feet." "[Powers] nimbly hopscotches between the wonders of nature and the marvels and dangers of cutting-edge science.… [B]rims with love for humanity and the planet." "Brilliant.… Powers draws these stories together in a mind-bending way that will transform the way you see the world." "Paint[s] the page with colour and refracted light.… [H]ugely ambitious." "Powers writes with erudition and electrifying beauty.… [T]rue, indisputable greatness." "Soaringly imaginative yet firmly grounded…[Playground] deals with the most pressing issues of our time in the most wrenchingly human terms." "History unspools in this luminous journey that interweaves a 3,000-year-old board game, AI and floating cities.… [A]ll-around delightful." "Vivid and ambitious…a love letter to the natural world.… Playground is ravishing in its descriptions of an underwater universe as fragile as it is ancient and unyielding." "Powers evokes [the ocean’s] ever more fragile splendor with glimmering schools of sensual detail.… Ultra-vivid, wildly gripping, and visionary." "You’ll never look at the ocean the same way again. Playground isn’t merely a great American novel, but a magnificent one.… Increasingly gripping…brilliant on the complications of friendship…incandescently beautiful.… In a word: wow." "Magnificent.… A provocative exploration of our depths both interior and oceanic." "A richly layered story that examines the intersection of technology, nature, and personal relationships. Powers’ signature blend of intellectual depth and compelling storytelling shines through.… Thought-provoking literature that engages both the mind and heart." "[Powers is] the greatest living American novelist.… An impressive and warm-hearted book." "Inimitable.… [Playground] immers[es] us in a boundless sense of wonder." "Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep, and alive." "An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways—gripping, alarming, and uplifting." "Powers is a master of taking important topics of our times—from threats to our oceans and climate change to AI—and turning them into riveting and fiercely relevant books imbued with psychological insight and a deep awe for nature. This eloquent dance of the scientific and emotional makes him one of our finest storytellers. Playground is brilliant, captivating, and important—and the best book I’ve read this year."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781324123736
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton & Co
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 394 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1324123737
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Novel
  • Width: 140 mm


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