Operation Wandering Soul
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BEWILDERMENT
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Atlantic Books
Published:1st Aug '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'Vast and daring... A fully realized and major work of art.' Chicago Tribune Reissued and re-jacketed in paperback.
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this is a stunning novel about childhood innocence amid a nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern America
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph
In his ambition to define and dissect our culture, Powers is an agile younger brother to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon * Newsday *
If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul... Dense in knowledge, rich in imagination, powerful in expression, [it] is bedtime reading for the future. Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes, children out too late at night, far from home, lost, the wandering souls of the future, our future. * USA Today *
Powers's prose soars like the most magnificent of choirs, memorably capturing the moments of joy and anguish, barrenness and grace, that add up to life. * Washington Post *
Vast and daring... A fully realized and major work of art. * Chicago Tribune *
ISBN: 9781848871434
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 278g
416 pages