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By Ethan Canin

ISBN-10: 081299678X

ISBN-13: 9780812996784

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this enchanting novel, Ethan Canin, the author of America America and The Palace Thief, explores the character of genius, contention, ambition, and love between a number of generations of a proficient family.

Milo Andret is born with an strange brain. A lonely baby starting to be up within the woods of northern Michigan within the Nineteen Fifties, he supplies little concept to his personal expertise. yet along with his attractiveness at U.C. Berkeley he realizes the level, and the hazards, of his singular presents. California within the seventies is a seduction, commencing Milo’s eyes to the attract of either ambition and indulgence. The study he starts there'll make him a legend; the girl he meets there—and the rival he meets along her—will hang-out him for the remainder of his existence. For Milo’s brilliance is entwined with a depressing desire that quickly grows to threaten his paintings, his family members, even his existence.

Spanning seven many years because it strikes from California to Princeton to the Midwest to manhattan, A Doubter’s Almanac tells the tale of a kin because it explores the way in which ambition lives along destructiveness, obsession along torment, love along grief. it's a tale of the way the flame of genius either lighting and scorches each new release it touches. Graced by way of attractive prose and great storytelling, A Doubter’s Almanac is a shocking, suspenseful, and deeply relocating novel, a tremendous paintings through a author who has been hailed as “the such a lot mature and finished novelist of his generation.”

Praise for A Doubter’s Almanac

“[Canin] is on the best of his shape, fluent, immersive, convinced. chances are you'll now not be aware of the place he’s taking you, however the characters are so bright, Hans’s voice rendered so accurately, that it’s very unlikely to not belief within the tale. . . . the fragile networks of emotion and connection that make up a relations are illuminated, as though by way of magic, through his prose.”—Slate

“Alternately explosive and deeply interior.”—New York (“Eight Books you want to Read”)

“A blazingly clever novel.”—Los Angeles Times

“Math made appealing . . . Canin writes with such luxuriant good looks and gentle sympathy that even sufferers of Algebra II will stick with his calculations of the center with rapt comprehension.”—The Washington Post

“A masterful author at his transcendent best.”—BBC

“Elegant and devastating . . . A Doubter’s Almanac is exquisitely crafted. Canin takes us readers deep into the unusual global of his afflicted characters with no ever making us conscious of the hassle concerned. . . . a wierd and fully beautiful novel.”—NPR’s Fresh Air

“There is a shimmering loveliness to Canin’s glimpses of upper arithmetic. . . . A Doubter’s Almanac is a singular whose fulfillment is absolutely equivalent to the . . . tragedy it portrays. Ethan Canin is aware either the attract of significant highbrow accomplishment and the fee it exacts from those that pursue it. in contrast to his protagonist, his personal prodigious attempt has produced a piece of beautiful and enduring beauty.”—Bookreporter
“Ethan Canin writes approximately arithmetic as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes approximately poetry. With this awesome novel, Ethan Canin now takes his position at the excessive twine with the simplest writers of his time.”[b]—Pat Conroy
“A ebook that increases the bar for novelists.”[b]—Literary Hub

“Staggeringly bold . . . a narrative of majestic sweep.”—Paste