Playground

by Richard Powers

Book Overview

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324086033
• ISBN13: 9781324086031
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages