Book of Numbers

Name: Book of Numbers
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joshua Cohen
ISBN: 9781622316946

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

Synopsis

When the enigmatic billionaire founder and CEO of Teration, the world's most powerful tech company, is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, he hires failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as "principle", takes Josh deep into his own mind, and outlines the history of Tetration and outlines the history of Tetration, which started by revolutionizing the search engine and later ventured into smartphones, computer manufacturing, and the surveillance of American citizens. Accompanying Josh on a mind-bending world tour of local Tetration offices for Palo Alto to Dubai, principal soon initiates Josh into the secret pretext of the autobiography project, and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.

About Joshua Cohen

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ

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

Goodreads review by L.S.

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

Goodreads review by Zach

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