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ALSO BY RICHARD POWERS Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance Prisoner’s Dilemma The Gold Bug Variations Operation Wandering Soul Galatea 2.2 Gain Plowing the Dark The Time of Our Singing The Echo Maker GENEROSITY GENEROSITY AN ENHANCEMENT RICHARD POWERS A FRANCES COADY BOOK FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK Farrar, Straus and Giroux 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Copyright © 2009 by Richard Powers All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2009 A portion of this work was published in slightly different form in A Public Space. What “the scientist says,” on page 295, is a paraphrase from Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following previously published material: Excerpts from Exuberance, by Kay Redfield Jamison, and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes, both courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Powers, Richard, 1957– Generosity : an enhancement / Richard Powers.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-374-16114-9 (alk. paper) 1. College teachers—Fiction. 2. Genetics—Research—Fiction. I. Title. PS3566.O92 G46 2009 813'.54—dc22 2008054249 Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott www.fsgbooks.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For JTK— La vraie générosité envers l’avenir consiste à tout donner au présent. —Camus PART ONE OF STRANGE LANDS AND PEOPLE Exuberance carries us places we would not otherwise go—across the savannah, to the moon, into the imagination—and if we ourselves are not so exuberant we will, caught up by the contagious joy of those who are, be inclined collectively to go yonder. —Kay Redfield Jamison, Exuberance

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FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thass

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ALSO BY RICHARD POWERS Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance Prisoner’s Dilemma The Gold Bug Variations Operation Wandering Soul Galatea 2.2 Gain Plowing the Dark The Time of Our Singing The Echo Maker GENEROSITY GENEROSITY AN ENHANCEMENT RICHARD POWERS A FRANCES COADY BOOK FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK Farrar, Straus and Giroux 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Copyright © 2009 by Richard Powers All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2009 A portion of this work was published in slightly different form in A Public Space. What “the scientist says,” on page 295, is a paraphrase from Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following previously published material: Excerpts from Exuberance, by Kay Redfield Jamison, and A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes, both courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Powers, Richard, 1957– Generosity : an enhancement / Richard Powers.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-374-16114-9 (alk. paper) 1. College teachers—Fiction. 2. Genetics—Research—Fiction. I. Title. PS3566.O92 G46 2009 813'.54—dc22 2008054249 Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott www.fsgbooks.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For JTK— La vraie générosité envers l’avenir consiste à tout donner au présent. —Camus PART ONE OF STRANGE LANDS AND PEOPLE Exuberance carries us places we would not otherwise go—across the savannah, to the moon, into the imagination—and if we ourselves are not so exuberant we will, caught up by the contagious joy of those who are, be inclined collectively to go yonder. —Kay Redfield Jamison, Exuberance

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FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thass

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