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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780307389930
- Book Title
- Sum : Forty Tales from the Afterlives
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, Religious, Literary
- Item Weight
- 4.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307389936
ISBN-13
9780307389930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74268040
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sum : Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Visionary & Metaphysical, Religious, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"[SUM] belongs to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned." -Alexander McCall Smith "SUMhas the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." -Geoff Dyer "This delightful, thought-provoking little collection belongs to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned. It is full of tangential insights into the human condition and poetic thought experiments . . . . It is also full of touching moments and glorious wit of the sort one only hopes will be in copious supply on the other side." -The New York Times "Imaginative and inventive." -Wall Street Journal "This little book is teeming, writhing with imagination." -Los Angeles Times "SUMis terrific. It's such a good idea that I was grinding my teeth all the way through wishing I'd thought of it first. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completely original. I hopeSUMwill be the great big hit it deserves to be." -Philip Pullman, author ofThe Golden Compass "A clever little book by a neuroscientist translates lofty concepts of infinity and death into accessible human terms. What happens after we die? Eagleman wonders in each of these brief, evocative segments. Are we consigned to replay a lifetime's worth of accumulated acts, as he suggests in 'Sum,' spending six days clipping your nails or six weeks waiting for a green light? Is heaven a bureaucracy, as in 'Reins,' where God has lost control of the workload? Will we download our consciousnesses into a computer to live in a virtual world, as suggested in 'Great Expectations,' where 'God exists after all and has gone through great trouble and expense to construct an afterlife for us'? Or is God actually the size of a bacterium, battling good and evil on the 'battlefield of surface proteins,' and thus unaware of humans, who are merely the 'nutritional substrate'? Mostly, the author underscores in 'Will-'o-the-Wisp,' humans desperately want to matter, and in afterlife search out the 'ripples left in our wake.' Eagleman's turned out a well-executed and thought-provoking book." -Publishers Weekly(starred review) "With both a childlike sense of wonder and a trenchant flair for irony, the Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist generously offers forty variations on the theme of God and the afterlife, imagining what each of us might find when we shuffle off this mortal coil.... Sum is great fun-sort of a brainy parlor game in print--and a modest satire aimed at zealots who define heaven and God to serve their own ends. It is also a reminder that when it comes to our knowledge of the hereafter, we have loads of faith but not a scintilla of proof." -Texas Monthly "Wow." -New York Observer "This stunningly original book is little more than a 100 pages long. You can get through it in an hour, but you'd be mad to hurry, and you will certainly want to return to it many times . . . . The real question, Eagleman indirectly reminds us, is how to live. This is what makes his book greater than the sum of its brilliant parts. Its success depends on a combination of exquisitely rendered detail and the massive implications that result . . . ., "Eagleman is a true original. ReadSumand be amazed."-Time Magazine "You will not read a more dazzling book this year than David Eagleman'sSum. If you read it and aren't enchanted I will eat 40 hats." --Stephen Fry "Delightful, thought-provoking… full of touching moments and glorious wit."-Alexander McCall Smith, The New York Times Book Review "Bracing, provocative, fun. . . . It challenges and teases as it spins out different parables of possibility."--Houston Chronicle "This is a scientist and exceptionally talented writer using the idea of the afterlife to reflect on our innermost fears and desires and also as a way of dissecting how we live." -Tampa Tribune "This delightful, thought-provoking little collection belongs to that category of strange, unclassifiable books that will haunt the reader long after the last page has been turned. It is full of tangential insights into the human condition and poetic thought experiments . . . . It is also full of touching moments and glorious wit of the sort one only hopes will be in copious supply on the other side."-The New York Times "Teeming, writhing with imagination."--Los Angeles Times "David Eagleman'sSumenvisions a multiplicity of afterlives: pasts relived in shuffle mode, cast in the dreams of others, and dictated by our credit card reports."-Vanity Fair "Imaginative and inventive." -Wall Street Journal "It takes someone ridiculously smart to write something as deceptively simple as SUM." -Denver Daily News "With both a childlike sense of wonder and a trenchant flair for irony, the Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist generously offers forty variations on the theme of God and the afterlife, imagining what each of us might find when we shuffle off this mortal coil." -Texas Monthly "A small gem of a book.... Who'd have thought that a young neuroscientist would have so much story in him?" -The Globe and Mail, Toronto "Imaginative riffs that are simultaneously improvisational and well-considered. . . . Challenges you to leave well-traveled paths of belief and think in bold, new ways." -Arizona Republic "These images of the Great Beyond are more complex, sometimes whimsical, always veering off in an unexpected direction. In total they present a realm where you are certain to learn something about the life you just left behind."-Deseret News "With both a childlike sense of wonder and a trenchant flair for irony, the Baylor College of Medicine neuroscientist generously offers forty variations on the theme of God and the afterlife, imagining what each of us might find when we shuffle off this mortal coil.... Sum is great fun-sort of a brainy parlor game in print--and a modest satire aimed at zealots who define heaven and God to serve their own ends. It is also a reminder that when it comes to our knowledge of the hereafter, we have loads of faith but not a scintilla of proof."-Texas Monthly "Wow."-New York Observer "Stunningly original…. Sum has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius."-Geoff Dyer, The Observer "Unsettling and reassuring, godly and godless....Excitement pervades the whole volume."-The National Post "As rigorous and imaginative as the writings of Italo Calvino and Alan Lightman." Nature "SUMis terrific. It's such a good idea that I was grinding my teeth all the way through wishing I'd thought of it first. The inventiveness, the clarity and wit of the prose, the calm air of moral understanding that pervades the whole thing, add up to something completely original. I ho
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives--each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people's dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.
LC Classification Number
PS3605.A375
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