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    How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
    How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
    How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel

    Written by Julius Taranto

    Narrated by Lauren Fortgang

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    About this audiobook

    An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow 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 best minds of her generation. A young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity, which could save the planet, Helen is torn when she discovers that her brilliant advisor is involved in a sex scandal. 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 that 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. Soon enough, 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 it’s not that hard – if you can run the numbers. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateSep 12, 2023
    ISBN9781668632383
    How I Won a Nobel Prize: A Novel
    Author

    Julius Taranto

    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. How I Won A Nobel Prize is his first novel. He lives in New York.

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