On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction - Brossura

Iagnemma, Karl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385335946 ISBN 13: 9780385335942

Casa editrice: Dial Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Science and romance intermingle in a remarkable debut collection of short fiction that explores the complex mysteries of the human heart in stories that capture the lives of a group of restless, lonely scientists and mathematicians whose own yearnings for true love force them to search for a place in which reason and emotion can coexist. A first collection. Reprint.

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Karl Iagnemma&;s work has won the Paris Review Plimpton Prize and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. He is a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at M.I.T. His collection, On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction, is available from Dial Press Trade Paperbacks.

Karl Iagnemma’s work has won the Paris Review Plimpton Prize and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. He is a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at M.I.T. His collection, On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction, is available from Dial Press Trade Paperbacks.

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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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Dial Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385335946
• ISBN 13: 9780385335942
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile