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"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a Ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the...
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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends...
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2018
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Caution: do not put this book back on the shelf!
I know because I have done it a thousand times before. While meandering through the numerous volumes, I was attracted to the cover artwork or found the title to be intriguing. I perused the summary and then returned it to its slot. But I assure you that you will be sorry if you do that with this book. Inside is a story that will remind you of your own childhood. This is a story about a group of boys...
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