

Book of Numbers
Author: Joshua Cohen
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Unabridged: 22 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 06/09/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Joshua Cohen
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Unabridged: 22 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 06/09/2015
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Joshua Cohen is the author of ten books, including the novels Book of Numbers, Moving Kings, and Witz. Called "a major American writer" by the New York Times, and "an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today" by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His book, The Netanyahus, won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The supersonically skilled word-spinner, whose incredible novel Witz (although overlong and insufferable) showed the young man’s smarts with language to have almost no limits, has managed to combine his torrential lexicon with something approaching a “plot”, and secure well-deserved mainstream atten......more
A masterpiece. Relentlessly clever. The demented techno wordplay will ripple into the future, endlessly perplexing jaundiced, crusty historians of so-called traditional literature as it astounds and speaks to every savvy and savage child of our screen-dependent age. A big book of inside jokes, which,......more
Thoughts about this masterpiece that are not actually about this masterpiece: 1. Goodreads / NetGalley / Publishers must stop sending galleys/pre-release copies of books to people in exchange for an "honest review." The "honest reviews" piling up here like dead leaves in a gutter that give the book "......more