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A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin 2016 Hardcover First Edition
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- A Doubter's Almanac
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Almanac
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 9781400068265
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400068266
ISBN-13
9781400068265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201669303
Product Key Features
Book Title
Doubter's Almanac
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Sagas, Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
30.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-022315
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
Advance praise for The Doubter's Almanac "I've been reading Ethan Canin's books since he first burst on the literary scene with the remarkable Emperor of the Air . I thought he could never equal the power of his last work, America America, but his latest novel is, I believe, his best by far. With A Doubter's Almanac, Canin has soared to a new standard of achievement. What a story, and what a cast of characters. The protagonist, Milo Andret, is a mathematical genius and one of the most maddening, compelling, appalling, and unforgettable characters I've encountered in American fiction. This is the story of a family that falls to pieces under the pressure of living with an abundantly gifted tyrant. Ethan Canin writes about mathematics as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes about poetry. With this extraordinary novel, Ethan Canin now takes his place on the high wire with the best writers of his time." --Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Advance praise for A Doubter's Almanac "I've been reading Ethan Canin's books since he first burst on the literary scene with the remarkable Emperor of the Air . I thought he could never equal the power of his last work, America America, but his latest novel is, I believe, his best by far. With A Doubter's Almanac, Canin has soared to a new standard of achievement. What a story, and what a cast of characters. The protagonist, Milo Andret, is a mathematical genius and one of the most maddening, compelling, appalling, and unforgettable characters I've encountered in American fiction. This is the story of a family that falls to pieces under the pressure of living with an abundantly gifted tyrant. Ethan Canin writes about mathematics as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes about poetry. With this extraordinary novel, Ethan Canin now takes his place on the high wire with the best writers of his time." --Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini "[Written] with stunning assurance and elegant, resonant prose . . . fascinating in its character portrayal and psychological insights . . . It is [Canin's] superb storytelling that makes this novel a tremendous literary achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Epic . . . thoroughly absorbing . . . a nuanced, heartbreaking portrait of a tortured mathematician . . . Canin, in translucent prose, elucidates the way a mathematician sees the world and humanity's own insignificance within it. A harrowing, poignant read about the blessing and curse of genius." -- Booklist (starred review) Praise for Ethan Canin "The most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation." --Alan Cheuse, NPR "Canin's achievement is one of both artistry and humanity." -- Newsday "One of the most satisfying writers present on the contemporary scene." --The New York Times "One of the best writers at work today." --Lorrie Moore, "Math made beautiful . . . Ethan 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 "[Canin] is at the top of his form, fluent, immersive, confident. You might not know where he's taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hans's voice rendered so precisely, that it's impossible not to trust in the story. . . . 'It was as though the numerals had been expressly fabricated, like more-perfect words, to elucidate the details of creation,' Canin writes of Milo's passion for math, though he might as well be referring to his novel, in which the delicate networks of emotion and connection that make up a family are illuminated, as if by magic, via his prose." -- Slate "Canin's hugely anticipated tale of male genius and its destructive power is a fine-grained portrait of a troubled mathematician and the emotional footprint he leaves behind." -- Vogue "A blazingly intelligent novel." --The Los Angeles Times "A gem." --People "Ethan Canin's immersive multi-generational novel A Doubter's Almanac is rich with insights into genius and its darker legacy." -- More "A masterful writer at his transcendent best." --BBC "I've been reading Ethan Canin's books since he first burst on the literary scene with the remarkable Emperor of the Air . I thought he could never equal the power of his last work, America America, but his latest novel is, I believe, his best by far. With A Doubter's Almanac, Canin has soared to a new standard of achievement. What a story, and what a cast of characters. The protagonist, Milo Andret, is a mathematical genius and one of the most maddening, compelling, appalling, and unforgettable characters I've encountered in American fiction. This is the story of a family that falls to pieces under the pressure of living with an abundantly gifted tyrant. Ethan Canin writes about mathematics as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes about poetry. With this extraordinary novel, Ethan Canin now takes his place on the high wire with the best writers of his time." --Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and My Reading Life "A book that raises the bar for novelists." --Lit Hub "Staggeringly ambitious . . . a story of majestic sweep." --Paste "[Written] with stunning assurance and elegant, resonant prose . . . fascinating in its character portrayal and psychological insights . . . It is [Canin's] superb storytelling that makes this novel a tremendous literary achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Epic . . . thoroughly absorbing . . . a nuanced, heartbreaking portrait of a tortured mathematician . . . Canin, in translucent prose, elucidates the way a mathematician sees the world and humanity's own insignificance within it. A harrowing, poignant read about the blessing and curse of genius." -- Booklist (starred review) "Ethan Canin has done something extraordinary: he has written a spellbinding novel about math." --Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
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 Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there--and the rival he meets alongside her--will haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milo's 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 Doubter's 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 Doubter's 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 Doubter's Almanac "[Canin] is at the top of his form, fluent, immersive, confident. You might not know where he's taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hans's voice rendered so precisely, that it's 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 "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 Doubter's 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." --NPR's Fresh Air "There is a shimmering loveliness to Canin's glimpses of higher mathematics. . . . A Doubter's Almanac is a novel whose achievement is fully equal to the . . . tragedy it portrays. Ethan Canin understands both the allure of great intellectual accomplishment and the price it exacts from those who pursue it. Unlike his protagonist, his own prodigious effort has produced a work of exquisite and enduring beauty." -- Bookreporter "Ethan Canin writes about mathematics as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes about poetry. With this extraordinary novel, Ethan Canin now takes his place on the high wire with the best writers of his time." --Pat Conroy "A book that raises the bar for novelists." --Literary Hub "Staggeringly ambitious . . . a story of majestic sweep." --Paste, 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 Milo's eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman he meets there--and the rival he meets alongside her--will haunt him for the rest of his life. For Milo's 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 Doubter's 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 Doubter's 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 Doubter's Almanac "551 pages of bliss . . . devastating and wonderful . . . dazzling . . . You come away from the book wanting to reevaluate your choices and your relationships. It's a rare book that can do that, and it's 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 he's taking you, but the characters are so vivid, Hans's voice rendered so precisely, that it's 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 Canin's 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 Doubter's 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." --NPR's Fresh Air "Dazzlingly ambitious . . . one part intellectual thriller, one part domestic saga." -- The Huffington Post
LC Classification Number
PS3553.A495C66 2015
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