On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction - Hardcover

Iagnemma, Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385335938 ISBN 13: 9780385335935

Publisher: Dial Pr, 2003

Synopsis

In Iagnemma's stories, mathematicians and theoreticians, foresters and doctors, yearn to create bonds as steadfast as the equations and principles that anchor their lives. A frustrated academic tries to diagram his troubled relationship with his girlfriend but fails to create a formula for romance. A nineteenth-century phrenologist must reexamine the connection between knowledge and passion when a young con-woman beats him at his own game. A jaded professor dreams endlessly of his two obsessions: a beautiful former colleague and the theorem that made her famous.

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Review

Iagnemma s desperate, comic, and determined heroes seek, with beautiful futility, formulas for love, loss, history, religion, and odd arts. Here are crackpots and lovelorn, bewildered geniuses, sincerely seeking impossible truths. These are wonderful stories, and Karl Iagnemma is one of our very best young writers. Brad Watson, "National Book Award" finalist and author of "The Heaven of Mercury"
Karl Iagnemma s stories are carefully written and beautifully detailed in their investigations of people caught up in the webs of science and history, and they dramatize, with great precision, the traps that the mind and body can sometimes stumble into. He is affectionate and severe about his chosen territory, the Midwest: this is a fine book. Charles Baxter, author of" ""The Feast of Love"
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"Iagnemma's desperate, comic, and determined heroes seek, with beautiful futility, formulas for love, loss, history, religion, and odd arts. Here are crackpots and lovelorn, bewildered geniuses, sincerely seeking impossible truths. These are wonderful stories, and Karl Iagnemma is one of our very best young writers."--Brad Watson, National Book Award finalist and author of The Heaven of Mercury

"Karl Iagnemma's stories are carefully written and beautifully detailed in their investigations of people caught up in the webs of science and history, and they dramatize, with great precision, the traps that the mind and body can sometimes stumble into. He is affectionate and severe about his chosen territory, the Midwest: this is a fine book." --Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

About the Author

In addition to winning the Paris Review Discovery Prize and being selected for Best American Short Stories, Karl Iagnemma has won a Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope: All Story, and One Story, among other publications. He currently works as a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Dial Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385335938
• ISBN 13: 9780385335935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212