| The Weight of Numbers Contributor(s): Ings, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802170307 ISBN-13: 9780802170309 Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: "The Weight of Numbers" is a big, ambitious novel that posits a world where everything is connected but, post-faith, post-fate, all that is left to guide us is numbers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006041276 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.78" W x 8.16" (1.08 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Weight of Numbers describes the metamorphosis of three people: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stacey Chavez, ex-teenage celebrity and mediocre performance artist, hungry for fame and starved of love. All are haunted by Nick Jinks, a malevolent curse of a man who seems to be everywhere at once. As a grid of connections emerge between a dusty philosophical society in London and an African revolution, between international container shipping and celebrity-hosted expos s on the problems of the Third World--this novel sends the specters of the Baby Boom's liberal revolutions floating into the unreal estate of globalization and media overload--with a deadly payoff.The Weight of Numbers is an artful and deadly novel that traces the secret histories and paranoid fantasies of our culture into a future globalized in ways both liberating and hideous, full of information and empty of meaning. Simon Ings has delivered a storytelling tour de force that will alter some of your most cherished beliefs. |