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Odds Against Tomorrow

Autor Nathaniel Rich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2014

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A brilliant mathematician, he spends his days calculating worst-case scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself in the calculus of catastrophe, he exchanges letters with Elsa Bruner-a college crush with her own apocalyptic secret-and becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. When Mitchell's darkest predictions come true and an actual worst-case scenario engulfs Manhattan, he realizes that he is uniquely prepared to profit. But what will it cost him?

Odds Against Tomorrow, hailed by Rolling Stone as "the first great climate-change novel," is an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear. The future is not what it used to be.

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ISBN-13: 9781250043641
ISBN-10: 1250043646
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 142 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Colecția St. Martin's Press

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New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe, he becomes obsessed by a culture's fears.