Richard Powers hit the big time with his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Overstory a few years back. He also won the National Book Award in 2006 with this book. He’s been writing and publishing since the late 1980s, and there was a while (and still maybe a future) in which I thought I would be a “Richard Powers” guy. A lot of his writing is metafictional and experimental, but plenty of his books are simply complex, if otherwise realistic. This book begins with a truck […]