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Richard Powers: “Bewilderment”

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I've Never Read a Novel That Rewards Identification

"I would say this book has less science in it than anything that i've ever written," he says. "The act of identifying with this, of trying to empathize with this strange, intense, powerful, anxious, but deeply loving child over the course of 200 pages is itself a kind of decota nerofebe." The boy ning to participate in the emotional state of his dead mother is only the start of a process that the reader will come to see as something thatday he or she is also participating in.

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