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PlaygroundA POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AND BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT 'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive' PERCIVAL EVERETT 'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA DONOGHUE Rafi and Todd are two

At the heart of the book is a sense of gratitude towards cats as perhaps the species that more than any other - in the essential loneliness of our position in the the world - gives us a sense of our own animal nature

stylistically In Cold Blood is a filmmaking master class

and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown

and always has been

meat and fish (chicken with caramelized onion and cardamom rice

and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs’s including Allen Ginsberg

impressions past and present-even projections into the future-photos

a coherency and an approachability that suggests The National are at their most confident

Waits has made a breakthrough – he’s found music as evocative as his words

But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith - when she sees him locking eyes with a superior from the Inner Party at the Two Minutes Hate

doing two push ups a day

The perfect crime

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