小說/散文

Bewilderment
出版社： W.W.Norton & Company. Inc. Publishers
書林書號：
30259935
作者：
Powers, Richard
定價：
628
會員價：
$597
ISBN：
9780393881493
出版年份：
2021
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
Bewilderment 普立茲小說獎得主 Richard Powers 2021年最新力作

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⊙　父子間最親密堅定的羈絆與愛
 
Theo Byrne是一名天體生物學家，妻子早逝；9歲的兒子Robin患有亞斯柏格與過動症。失去妻子的自己；和失去母親的兒子，纏繞出父子間深深的愛與羈絆，一起在哀傷、憤怒、困惑和恐懼中，找到和解與平靜的路。
隨著Robin的行為越來越難以控制，Theo開始尋求一項涉及神經反饋的實驗性治療，希望Robin能藉著已故的母親腦電波紀錄，學習模擬自己情緒反應。
但是當政府撤出研究資金，Robin的病情急劇下降，令人心碎的後果似乎無法避免。Theo該如何拯救Robin？
 
書中無論是談及自然世界的消逝、超越生命的願景，或星球永續的傳承，都蘊含著濃厚的父子親情羈絆，《Bewilderment》可說是作者Richard Powers迄今最深情的小說。
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Astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos, invents planets evey night for a bedtime story. He raises Robin 9, after a car crash took their Aly. The family is strict vegetarians, Theo tells us each dish.
Robin is bright, but full of anger that explodes in a flash. He suffers over animals tortured, killed to feed humans. His mum lobbied in Washington for animals, and died for them. The boy spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He must leave third grade for smashing his friend in the face.
Theo is pushed to put Robin on drugs, tries neurofeedback in desperation Robin trains his emotional control on recorded patterns of his mother’s brain in various moods. As he improves though, the boy remembers the mouse in Algernon's story.
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