Galatea 2.2: A NovelPicador, 1 янв. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 352 "Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times |
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... Half the fields were hyphenated. Creative play spilled over borders, cross pollinating like hybrid cornin heat. Talkin itspublicspaces sounded like a UN picnic: excited, wild, andmutually unintelligible. I loved how you could never ...
... hall, dismissed to safety. I don't know whatI expected, really. Civility, perhaps. Acknowledgment. An exchangeof names. All the social niceties thatI'd avoided so studiously since my Dunkirk back here. I obsessed for a day and a half,
A Novel Richard Powers. back here. I obsessed for a day and a half, inventing ironic, dry comebacks. In my head, I let the man know in no uncertain terms that I was neither a pest nor ludicrous. Under cover of daylight,Ireturned to pinch ...
... half a year, I still sawthe spire of the Utrecht Dom each time I walked under theCenter's tower. I could not shakefreefrom aplace Inever feltat homein. Andall because ofsomedead Polishkid whoattended the next grade school downfrom my ...
... half, I saw people camped everywhere on top of stepgabled houses, island traumasin everrising water. This was my unshakable image of a placeIthought would never be more than an image to me. The word “Holland” filled me with autumnal ...