{"product_id":"9781466803695","title":"Plowing the Dark: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dazzling new novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eGalatea 2.2 \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join these two remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdie Klarpol, a skilled but disillusioned artist, comes back to life, revived by the thrill of working with cutting-edge technology. Against the collapse of Cold War empires and the fall of the Berlin Wall, she retreats dangerously into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. On the other side of the globe, Taimur Martin, an English teacher recovering from a failed love affair, is picked up off the streets in Beirut by Islamic fundamentalists and held in solitary captivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mesmerizing fiction that explores the imagination's power to both destroy and save, \u003ci\u003ePlowing the Dark \u003c\/i\u003erecasts the rules of the novel and stands as Richard Powers's most daring work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129771114736,"sku":"9781466803695","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466803695_p0.jpg?v=1769890875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466803695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}