How I Won a Nobel Prize by Taranto, Julius
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Taranto, Julius

How I Won a Nobel Prize

A "very funny, very good" (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her...
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Author: Julius Taranto
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How I Won a Nobel Prize by Taranto, Julius

How I Won a Nobel Prize

$382.39
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Taranto, Julius

How I Won a Nobel Prize

$382.39
Author: Julius Taranto
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A "very funny, very good" (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage)

Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts academics other schools have thrown out?

Helen decides she must go--her work is too important. She brings along her partner, Hew, who is much less sanguine about living on an island where the disgraced and deplorable get to operate with impunity. On campus, Helen finds herself drawn to an iconoclastic older novelist, while Hew stews in an increasingly radical protest movement. Their rift deepens until both confront choices that will reshape their lives--and maybe the world.

Irreverent, generous, anchored in character, and provocative without being polemical, How I Won a Nobel Prize illuminates the compromises we'll make for progress, what it means to be a good person, and how to win a Nobel Prize. Turns out all of it would be simple--if you could run the numbers.


Author: Julius Taranto
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780316513074


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2023

About the Author
Julius Taranto's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Phoebe. He attended Yale Law School and Pomona College. He lives in New York.
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