Book of Numbers

Book of Numbers

Summary

FROM PULITZER PRIZEWINNER JOSHUA COHEN

'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Tóibín, Guardian

'Untainted and unique' Rachel Kushner
'Intensely perceptive' Independent


Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen.

The first Joshua is a writer whose keenly anticipated debut had the bad luck to be published on September 11, 2001.

The other Joshua is the enigmatic billionaire Founder and CEO of the world's most profitable tech company.

Autobiography, family memoir, phoned-in ghostwriting, international thriller, sex comedy - Book of Numbers brings to life the full range of modern experience in the course of its epic journey.

'More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade' New York Times

Reviews

  • Joshua Cohen’s novel Book of Numbers reads as if Philip Roth’s work were fired into David Foster Wallace’s inside the Hadron particle collider…Book of Numbers is more impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade. Mr. Cohen, all of 34, emerges as a major American writer
    Dwight Garner, The New York Times

About the author

Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the book critic for Harper’s Magazine and the author of several books, including Four New Messages and Attention! A (Short) History. His non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Forward, The Believer, the New York Observer, the London Review of Books, n+1 and elsewhere. He is a Granta Best Young American author.
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