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Ira Stein is a brilliant, troubled boy who repudiated everything his grandfather stood for and turned to Buddha. Abby Stein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was present as they detonated the first atomic bomb. Twenty-six years later he visits his grandson, dying of cancer at the age of twenty-one. He is incensed by Ira's inner calm and acceptance. Ira's sister Phoebe is the fulcrum on which these two poles of the family teeter back and forth. The Genius of the World is a sensitive and spiritual novel about bridging the gap between faith and reason. " The Genius of the World is a shattering story told with astonishing insight and redemptive clarity. This bold novel is a journey of the body and the spirit."-Melanie Rae Thon "This is a compassionate and beautifully written first novel. It is a fine and sensitive portrait of an idiosyncratic family confronting the ironies and inevitabilities of fate."-Tony Eprile An Phoebe, 1976 1. This is my everyone everywhere is lying almost all the time. I am anyway. Example. Wrote to Ira today. Told him I was happy. Told him I was beginning to see the Buddha nature, the good, in everyone and this was making me feel good. Bull shit. I'm not seeing t

Author

Lichtenstein, Alice, 1958-

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781581950182

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.16 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13