Generosity : an enhancement
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
ISBN
9780374161149, 0374161143
Status
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction | FIC Powers, Richard | On Shelf |
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | FICTION POWERS, R. | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374161149, 0374161143
Notes
General Note
"A Frances Coady book."
Description
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Powers, R. (2009). Generosity: an enhancement (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-. 2009. Generosity: An Enhancement. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Powers, Richard, 1957-. Generosity: An Enhancement Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Powers, Richard. Generosity: An Enhancement First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
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