Bewilderment

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Bewilderment is printed on 100 percent recycled paper. By using recycled paper in place of paper made with 100 percent virgin fiber, the first printing has saved:

1,796 trees

134,266 gallons of water

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Bewilderment is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2021 by Richard Powers

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Powers, Richard, 1957– author.

Title: Bewilderment : a novel / Richard Powers.

Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021008991 | ISBN 9780393881141 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780393881158 (epub)

Classification: LCC PS3566.O92 B49 2021 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008991

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