{"product_id":"plowing-the-dark-a-novel","title":"Plowing the Dark: A Novel","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePlowing the Dark: A Novel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRichard Powers\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780312280123\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePicador USA\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers's \u003ci\u003ePlowing the Dark \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the rules of the novel and remains one his most daring works--a mesmerizing fiction explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMention Richard Powers' name to other writers and see them get that faraway look in their eyes: They are calculating the eventual reach of his influence.--Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Plowing the Dark: A Novel | Richard Powers | Paperback | 9780312280123 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1598732","offer_id":48753925783704,"sku":"1598732","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71bQ7mJaPQL.jpg?v=1774068714","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/plowing-the-dark-a-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}