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Cover artist
  
Cheryl Asherman

Publication date
  
1988

ISBN
  
0-688-07350-6

Author
  
Richard Powers

OCLC
  
16985003

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
248 pp.

Originally published
  
1988

Country
  
United States of America

Genres
  
Fiction, Novel

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Publisher
  
William Morrow and Company

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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.

The novel centres on the father of the family, Eddie Hobson, who is trying to find a solution to the "prisoner's dilemma" posed by mathematicians at the RAND Corporation. He wishes to solve the dilemma through writing an alternate reality, explaining how human beings could live together peacefully. To do this, he uses many elements from real life twisted slightly.

Non-fiction portrayed in the novel

Many of these events are portrayed differently. For example, Disney is portrayed as having Japanese ancestry, when he did not.

  • Americans of Japanese Ancestry and their internment during World War II.
  • Century of Progress, the 1933 World Fair held in Chicago.
  • Der Fuehrer's Face, animated cartoon made by Disney in 1942.
  • Disney's Nine Old Men, chief animators at Disney.
  • Walt Disney, American animator.
  • Trinity test, the first testing of a nuclear weapon in 1945.
  • Victory Through Air Power, part-animated propaganda movie made by Disney in 1943.

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