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Prisoner's Dilemma is a 1988 novel by American author Richard Powers. It is the story of a dysfunctional family living in DeKalb County, Illinois . The novel explores the impact of history on contemporary life.
- Richard S Powers
- 1988
May 1, 2024 · Prisoner’s Dilemma. Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid.
Jan 1, 1988 · This dilemma illustrates an ethical problem, in which one person/prisoner must make a decision based on what they think the other person/prisoner will do. They can either remain silent or betray the other prisoner (their accomplice).
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Characters. The overwhelming character in the Prisoner's Dilemma is Eddie Hobson, the linchpin of the Hobson family, the ever patient, ever-teaching father modeled on Powers's own father.
1. What does the title mean? What is the prisoner's dilemma in the puzzle of the same name? What implications has it for Powers's narrative? 2. How does the name "Hobson" relate to the...
Richard Powers: Prisoner’s Dilemma. Powers’ second novel suffers from second novel syndrome. It really isn’t as good as his first. Eddie Hobson is a high school history teacher. Thirty years previously, he witnessed the first atom bomb blast at the Trinity test site and is now suffering from radiation sickness and dying from it.
Jul 27, 2021 · HarperCollins, Jul 27, 2021 - Fiction - 384 pages. The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment. “Accomplished . . . mature...
