Sum
Tales from the Afterlives
Will be published approx. on 20. May 2010
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-84767-897-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this astounding book, David Eagleman entertains forty fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love.
These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.
This audiobook assembles a stellar cast of readers who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.
These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.
This audiobook assembles a stellar cast of readers who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.
Reviews / Votes
An absolute pearl of a book -- Stephen Fry Elegant, surreal and philosophically questioning, each story from neuroscientist Eagleman offers an inventive, thought-provoking blend of science and romance * * Metro * * Sum is terrific. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completly original. -- Philip Pullman This stunningly original book is little more than 100 pages long. You can get through it in an hour, but you'd be mad to hurry, and you will certainly want to return to it many times . . . Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius. It seems exquisitely adapted to fill the contemporary longing for a kind of secular holy book. -- Geoff Dyer * * Observer * * Anything that tells us, convincingly, that this really may be the best of all possible worlds has something big going for it. * * Guardian * * Wacky and whimsical; a little goes a long way. -- Sue Arnold * * The Guardian * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Duration
Dauer: 160 min
Weight
125 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-897-3 (9781847678973)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
David Eagleman, PHD, is a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas where his research laboratory is developing a reputation for doing some of the most unusual experiments in contemporary neuroscience. He has had essays published in all manner of journals including Nature and Science. He also lectures widely and continues to be invited to speak at universities all around the world.