{"product_id":"9781555848576","title":"The Weight of Numbers","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e 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 empty of meaning. Simon Ings has delivered a storytelling \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e that will alter some of your most cherished beliefs.","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133499326704,"sku":"9781555848576","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555848576_p0.jpg?v=1769899131","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555848576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}