Prisoner's Dilemma (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Powers
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From 1939 to the 1970's
- Setting: De Kalb, Illinois; New York City; suburban northern New Jersey; Aptos, California; and Alamogordo, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Eddie Hobson, Ailene Hobson, Artie Hobson, Eddie Hobson, Jr., Lily Hobson Leeds, Rachel Hobson, Bud Middleton, Walt Disney
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: History, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Isolation
- Locales: California, New York, NY, New Mexico, New Jersey, Illinois
In an age when The Frugal Gourmet occupies a place high in the pantheon of television cooking shows, Richard Powers arrives on the scene as the Frugal Novelist of modern American letters, the kind of writer who never wastes anything. No detail in his diffuse, highly challenging novel stands alone, is ever without reference to something else pivotal to its closely interlocked development. It is not lost on Powers, for example, that De Kalb, Illinois, in which most of the novel's action takes place, is renowned for one thing: the invention of barbed wire.
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