| Editor |
Iagnemma, Karl |
| Year |
2003 |
| Publisher |
New York: Dial Press |
| ISBN |
9780385335942 |
| Number of pages |
224 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
Winner of the Paris Review Discovery Prize for best first fiction and anthologized
in The Best American Short Stories 2002, Karl Iagnemma has been recognized as a writer
of rare talent. His literary terrain is the world of science, with its charged boundary
between the rational mind and the restless heart. In Iagnemma's stories, mathematicians
and theoreticians, foresters and doctors, yearn to sustain bonds as steadfast as the
equations and principles that anchor their lives. A frustrated academic tries to diagram
his troubled relationship with his girlfriend but fails to create a formula for romance.
A nineteenth-century phrenologist must reexamine the connection between knowledge
and passion when a young con-woman beats him at his own game. A jaded professor dreams
endlessly of his two obsessions: a beautiful former colleague and the theorem that
made her famous. Inventive, wise, funny, and disquieting, Karl Iagnemma's first collection
attests to his spirited imagination and his prodigious literary gifts.
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