The Weight of Numbers

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.

Author: Simon Ings
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 02/21/2007
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.78w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780802170309

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2006 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2006 pg. 1093
Library Journal 01/01/2007 pg. 94
New York Times 03/11/2007 pg. 6