Bewilderment: A Novel (Unabridged) Bewilderment: A Novel (Unabridged)

Bewilderment: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION

Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction

A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.

I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the country's most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, there's something wrong....

Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos.

What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, even while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.

"Richard Powers is one of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent." —Oprah Winfrey

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
EB
Edoardo Ballerini
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:51
hr min
RELEASED
2021
September 21
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
243.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Songbirdreads ,

Bewilderment

Beautifully written, horribly narrated.
The concept of integrating an autistic character by narrating with a short, clipped, rushed staccato voice was very disruptive to the listening experience and, honestly, annoying. I would have preferred to read this book.

Kurticus64 ,

Depressing

Possibly the most depressing book I have read from beginning to end not one glimmer of hope.

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