Book of Numbers
Autor Joshua Cohenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mar 2016
More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer. "The New York Times"
The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.
Insider tech expose, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, "Book of Numbers "renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual.
Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, "Book of Numbers" is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Please note that "Book of Numbers" uses a special pagination system inspired by binary notation: the part number precedes the page number, and is separated from it by a decimal point.
Praise for "Book of Numbers"
The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . ."Book of Numbers" is a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web. . . . A page-turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet. "Rolling Stone"
A startlingly talented novelist . . . His] deeply rewarding novel is about an online religion gone wrong and its importance lies in the fact that nearly all of us in the modernized world are members of that faith, whether we know it or not. "The Wall Street Journal"
Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, "The New York Review of Books"
A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now . . . a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures: clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing. Colm Toibin, "The Guardian"
Joshua Cohen is the Great American Novelist. . . . Like Pynchon and Wallace, Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything. Adam Kirsch, "Tablet
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A digital-age "Ulysses." "The New York Times Book Review"
The next candidate for the Great American Novel . . . David Foster Wallace level audacious. "Details"
A brilliant book. "The Boston Globe"
"From the Hardcover edition.""
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812986655
ISBN-10: 0812986652
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Random House Trade
ISBN-10: 0812986652
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Random House Trade
Notă biografică
Joshua Cohenwas born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novelsThe Netanyahus,winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others,andCadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto;the short-fiction collectionFour New Messages,and the nonfiction collectionAttention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
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'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Toibin, GuardianA Granta Best Young American AuthorBook of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen.
'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Toibin, GuardianA Granta Best Young American AuthorBook of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen.