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THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS
by PAOLO GIORDANO (SHAUN WHITESIDE - TRANSLATOR)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385616244
- ISBN 13
- 9780385616249
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: DOUBLEDAY, 2009 Black Boards with white titles to spine, 240 x 160 mm approx. 458 pp + acknowledgments. First UK Edition 1st Impression 2009. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book- negligible shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- minimal shelf rubbing to extremities, non price clipped - cover £12.99. No notable defects to book or jacket). Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted.
Synopsis
"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level." - The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both "primes"-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the two meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. Years later, a chance encounter reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. But can two prime numbers ever find a way to be together? A brilliantly conceived and elegantly written debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and what it means to be human.
Reviews
On Oct 6 2010, Ccqdesigns said:
Thanks to Goodreads for this first reads book. It was a good book with detailed characters whose lives were painful and lonely. There were times I felt I was reading a YA novel instead of adult fiction and it was an easy read that I finished in one day. There were places in the story that would have been improved by inclusion of details and other places where too much detail bogged it down. But altogether it was a great first effort for this young Italian author.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 129798
- Title
- THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS
- Author
- PAOLO GIORDANO (SHAUN WHITESIDE - TRANSLATOR)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385616244
- ISBN 13
- 9780385616249
- Publisher
- DOUBLEDAY
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Paolo Giordano, Shaun Whitehead Translation,
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