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Richard Powers: “Bewilderment”

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A Love Story Between a Man and the Living World

This is the story about a man, a scientist and astrobiologist, who loses his beloved wife. Robin is deeply in love with the non human world. He'ss kind of pantheist u god is everywhere in other living things. And it is that intense love that he feels for the more than human world that also produces his grief and his anger and his anxiety when he learns how quickly that world is disappearing or what we're doing with it.

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