
The Weight of Numbers
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The Weight of Numbersdescribes 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 exposés 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 Numbersis 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 forcethat will alter some of your most cherished beliefs.
"[A] Pynchon-on-speed romp . . . Ings's mad, mad world is held together to the very last page by humor, vivid depictions and a deeply compelling emotional core."- Publishers Weekly
"A Scheherazade of a novel, executed with scope, daring, and humor. The Weight of Numbersis unerringly well written, and engrossing to the last page."-Lionel Shriver, bestselling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- PROLOGUE
- Lake Kissimmee, Florida
- BANSHEE
- Beira, Mozambique
- London - Johannesburg
- Glasgow, UK
- Portsmouth, UK
- Chicago, Illinois
- Lake Forest, Illinois
- THE GIFT
- 1
- 2
- 3
- WHITE MAN'S MAGIC
- 1
- 2
- 3
- ANNIHILATION THERAPY
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- PQRD
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- RENAMO MOTO
- 1
- 2
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- 4
- GLASS
- 1
- 2
- MODERN MEDICINE
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- MAPS OF THE WORLD
- Monday, 17 July 2006
- EPILOGUE
- Christmas Eve, 1968
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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