Generosity: An Enhancement, Powers, Richard, New Book

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ISBN
9781427207678
Publication Year
2009
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
Generosity : an Enhancement
Author
Richard Powers
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General, Literary
Category

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FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF "THE ECHO MAKER," A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, 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. Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing media circus. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severely 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. What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and finally magical, "Generosity "celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.

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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
ISBN-10
1427207674
ISBN-13
9781427207678
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72548222

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2009
Topic
General, Literary
Book Title
Generosity : an Enhancement
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
Richard Powers
Format
Compact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height
1in.
Item Length
5.9in.
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Width
5.1in.

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Narrator david Pittou's easy, thoughtful voice is a pleasure to listen to." - SoundCommentary.com "Part of this production's power is the performance by Pittou, slightly sardonic as Stone, French-accented as Thassa, comfortingly bland as Candace. It's a reading that doesn't get in the way of the prose, but offers its own enhancements to Powers' good writing." - Providence Journal Bulletin, "Narrator david Pittou's easy, thoughtful voice is a pleasure to listen to." - SoundCommentary.com"Part of this production's power is the performance by Pittou, slightly sardonic as Stone, French-accented as Thassa, comfortingly bland as Candace. It's a reading that doesn't get in the way of the prose, but offers its own enhancements to Powers' good writing." ProvidenceJournal Bulletin, "Narrator david Pittou's easy, thoughtful voice is a pleasure to listen to." - SoundCommentary.com "Part of this production's power is the performance by Pittou, slightly sardonic as Stone, French-accented as Thassa, comfortingly bland as Candace. It's a reading that doesn't get in the way of the prose, but offers its own enhancements to Powers' good writing." Providence Journal Bulletin
Number of Volumes
10 Vols.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition

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