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Zusatztext Brilliant . a furiously panoptic family saga . This is fiction at its most ambitious and seductive - for all its length and intellectual complexity! A Doubter's Almanac speeds by with effortless grace . On every page Canin's humane! precise prose offers marvels . Fiction as it should be - rich! compassionate! gripping and true Informationen zum Autor Ethan Canin is highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer. He spent his childhood in Ohio! Pennsylvania! and California before attending Stanford University! the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop! and then Harvard Medical School. He subsequently gave up a career in medicine to write and teach! and is now F. Wendell Miller Professor of English at his alma mater! the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Ethan Canin lives in California and Iowa! with his wife! their three children! and four chickens. Klappentext For fans of Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind! A Doubter's Almanac is at once a captivatingly virtuoso illustration of the powers of the mind and a deeply moving exploration of the nature of love! ambition and genius. It is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams! of bonds that tie and passions that destroy; a major work of dazzling and seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers. Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan! Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley! where the faculty is the first to recognize that the young man's childhood solitude has created a prodigiously unusual mind. Yet with Milo's great gifts come great risks! and California in the seventies is rife with temptation. The research he begins at Berkeley will make him a legend; the woman! and the rival he meets! will haunt him forever. For it soon becomes clear that Milo's brilliance is linked to a dark need that ultimately threatens to destroy not only his work and his marriage! but the lives of all his children! as well. An astounding novel, where personal ambition battles against family love, and the most complex intellectual ideas leap from the page with dazzling and seductive beauty Zusammenfassung The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches. Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan! Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley! where the faculty is the first to recognize that the young man's childhood solitude has created a prodigiously unusual mind. Yet with Milo's great gifts come great risks! and California in the seventies is rife with temptation. The research he begins at Berkeley will make him a legend; the woman! and the rival he meets! will haunt him forever. For it soon becomes clear that Milo's brilliance is linked to a dark need that ultimately threatens to destroy not only his work and his marriage! but the lives of all his children! as well. A Doubter's Almanac is at once a captivatingly virtuoso illustration of the powers of the mind and a deeply moving exploration of the nature of love! ambition and genius. It is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams! of bonds that tie and passions that destroy; a major work of dazzling and seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers. ...
