The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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• THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS by Paolo Giordano

  Review by Bonnie Brody (MAR 18, 2010) The Solitude of Prime Numbers is written by Paolo Giordano, an Italian physicist who is also the youngest winner of the Premio Strega, a prestigious literary award. Currently he is working on a doctorate in parti ... (read full critics)

  mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

• 'The Solitude of Prime Numbers' by Paolo Giordano

  A novel written by a particle physicist that features mathematics and numbers may not be all that surprising. But what is surprising about Paulo Giordano's debut, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, is the age of the author -- he's just 26 -- and the outs ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

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  In lacking a facility for self-expression, stunted protagonists exist almost solely, and safely, in their own minds

  "People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. He had either to tell Alice I'm here, or leave, take the first plane and disappear again, go back to the place where he had been hanging for those years.
  By now he had learned. Choices are m ... (continue)

  "People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. He had either to tell Alice I'm here, or leave, take the first plane and disappear again, go back to the place where he had been hanging for those years.
  By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains."

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• English Books
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• ISBN-10: 0385616244
• ISBN-13: 9780385616249
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Pub date: Jun 04, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
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