Richard Powers on BEWILDERMENT
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How to Write a Novel With Big Ideas
Bewi ment is a novel that wants to explore in an experimental way the various possibilities and affordances of being human. There are grand ideas in the book, but they spin completely out of these two lost boys. It was lovelyo to have reached the ripe old age of 64 and say, i've become a different kind of writer. The experiment, the constant breeding, has produced a different species at the end of the day.
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