Richard Powers - Generosity

The Scotsman“Breaks the novel to rebuild it for our times...” RICHARD Powers' witty and cerebral fictions seem to keep just ahead of the impending cusp of reality. His new novel addresses a question that writers have tried and failed to answer: how do you write about happiness?

Guardian“extremely self-conscious about the business of telling a story...” While there's something impressive and admirable about his appetite for ideas and information, Generosity mostly comes across as a William Gibson novel in which the thriller plot has been replaced by wooden debate...

Publishers Weekly“Powers attempts an impossible task: to make the world right...” 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...

The New York Times“A lighter, leaner treatment of his favorite themes and techniques...” Powers is, when he chooses to be, an engaging storyteller (though he would probably wince at the word), and even as he questions the conventions of narrative and character, “Generosity” gains in momentum and suspense...

The New Yorker“Powers' new book, ” “Generosity” is a slimmer, hastier, more crowd-pleasing book than anything Powers has yet written. Perhaps it is just a quick folly between more considered works. Still, in insidious ways it diminishes its better predecessors...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

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