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Titel: A Doubter's Almanac
Auteur: Ethan Canin
ISBN: 9781400068265
Conditie: Beetje gebruikt

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the author of America America and The Palace Thief, explores the nature of genius, rivalry, ambition, and love among multiple generations of a gifted family.

Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, he gives little thought to his own talent. But with his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley he realizes the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is a seduction, opening Milos eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets thereand the rival he meets alongside herwill haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milos brilliance is entwined with a dark need that soon grows to threaten his work, his family, even his existence.

Spanning seven decades as it moves from California to Princeton to the Midwest to New York, A Doubters Almanac tells the story of a family as it explores the way ambition lives alongside destructiveness, obsession alongside torment, love alongside grief. It is a story of how the flame of genius both lights and scorches every generation it touches. Graced by stunning prose and brilliant storytelling, A Doubters Almanac is a surprising, suspenseful, and deeply moving novel, a major work by a writer who has been hailed as the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation.

Praise for A Doubters Almanac

551 pages of bliss . . . devastating and wonderful . . . dazzling . . . You come away from the book wanting to reevaluate your choices and your relationships. Its a rare book that can do that, and its a rare joy to discover such a book.Esquire

[Canin] is at the top of his form, fluent, immersive, confident. You might not know where hes taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hanss voice rendered so precisely, that its impossible not to trust in the story. . . . The delicate networks of emotion and connection that make up a family are illuminated, as if by magic, via his prose.Slate

Alternately explosive and deeply interior.New York (Eight Books You Need to Read)

A blazingly intelligent novel.Los Angeles Times

[A] beautifully written novel.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)

A book that raises the bar for novelists.Literary Hub

No knowledge of proofs or theorems is required to enjoy Ethan Canins excellent eighth novel. He alternately treats math like elegant poetry or infuses it with crackling energy.The Christian Science Monitor

Math made beautiful . . . Canin writes with such luxuriant beauty and tender sympathy that even victims of Algebra II will follow his calculations of the heart with rapt comprehension.The Washington Post

A masterful writer at his transcendent best.BBC

Elegant and devastating . . . A Doubters Almanac is exquisitely crafted. Canin takes us readers deep into the strange world of his troubled characters without ever making us aware of the effort involved. . . . An odd and completely captivating novel.NPRs Fresh Air

Dazzlingly ambitious . . . one part intellectual thriller, one part domestic saga.The Huffington Post

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