A leatherback, she’d once read, must cry two gallons of water every hour, just to keep its blood less salty than the sea.
— Richard Powers, Playground: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company, September 24, 2024)
Notes:
- Photo via Pexels: River Nelson-Esch
- Post Title Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
- Book Reviews:
- NPR (July 7, 2024): “Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers plunges deep into the ocean in ‘Playground”
- NY Times (Sept 22, 2024): “First He Spoke for the Trees; Now He Speaks for the Sea”
- The Guardian (September, 29 2024): “Playground by Richard Powers review – an electrifyingly beautiful tale of tech and the ocean”
- “That Powers is an outstanding writer is hardly news. But with Playground, he proves himself a wizard. This novel is one long, clever magic trick. You approach the end thinking you have everything figured out. But then the author does something quite extraordinary – a move it would be criminal of me to give away. Let’s just say the reader is left reeling as the book’s conceit is revealed and the novel ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness.”
