Ebook {Epub PDF} A Doubters Almanac by Ethan Canin

 · In Ethan Canin’s new novel, “A Doubter’s Almanac,” the mathematician Milo Andret is certainly despicable enough. With relish and malice, he manipulates the lives of his family members. He Author: Ellen Ullman. “A Doubter’s Almanac” is a 21st century novel destined to be a classic. Though some may argue otherwise, Ethan Canin writes about a universal truth; i.e. “women are the sun; men are the moon”. Canin catalyzes one’s doubt and ambivalence about life’s meaning in a story about moral transgression, addiction, guilt, and redemption. A Doubter’s Almanac is a novel whose achievement is fully equal to the tragedy it portrays. Ethan Canin understands both the allure of great intellectual accomplishment and the price it exacts from those who pursue it. Unlike his protagonist, his own prodigious effort has produced a work of exquisite and enduring beauty.”—Bookreporter4/5().

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