Playground [electronic resource]
Richard Powers2024
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Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond
over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will
get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead to a startling AI
breakthrough.
Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal
strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval
bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French
Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to send floating,
autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will
Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of
destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, ...
Playground [electronic resource] / Richard Powers
Richard Powers, Author
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House UK, 2024
1 online resource (1 audio file) (380 MB, 13:51:27 H)
Narrator: Edoardo BalleriniNarrator: Eunice WongNarrator: Kevin R. FreeNarrator: Krys JanaeNarrator: Pun BandhuNarrator: Robin Siegerman
Adult
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
9781804951002
English
517031
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