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The Weight of Numbers by Simon Ings is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Weight of Numbers about?
“Like Don DeLillo's Underworld, Simon Ings's remarkable new work delivers nothing less than a secret key, a counter-history, of the last sixty years.”—Mark Costello, author of Big IfThe Weight of Numbers describes the metamorphosis of three people: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to trafficker in the poor and dispossessed; and Stacey Chavez, ex-teenage celebrity and mediocre performance artist, hungry for fame and starved of love. All are haunted by Nick Jinks, a malevolent curse of a man who seems to be everywhere at once. As a grid of connections emerge between a dusty philosophical society in London and an African revolution, between international container shipping and celebrity-hosted exposés on the problems of the Third World—this novel sends the specters of the Baby Boom's liberal revolutions floating into the unreal estate of globalization and media overload—with a deadly payoff.The Weight of Numbers is an artful and deadly novel that traces the secret histories and paranoid fantasies of our culture into a future globalized in ways both liberating and hideous, full of information and e
Who reads The Weight of Numbers?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Simon Ings
- Publisher
- New York: Black Cat: Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802170309
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.09 / 5 (146 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14