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Prisoner's Dilemma

Author: Richard Powers.

Prisoner's Dilemma

Author: Richard Powers.

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Item #: D13776
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: Atlantic
ISBN: 9781848871410
Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret p... More
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Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. Three decades before the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner The Overstory, Richard Powers published this sly, inventive novel about a very unusual Illinois family, praised by NYTBR as "A complex treatment of time…. An absorbing view of history."—NYTBR


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