Generosity: an enhancement - Richard Powers

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker comes a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene.

Funny, fast, and finally magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination.

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination.

In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.