ldquoMore impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade a wheeling meditation on the wired life on privacy on what being human in the age of binary code might mean Joshua Cohen all of thirty-four emerges as a major American writerrdquomdashThe New York TimesA monumental uproarious and exuberant novel about the searchmdashfor love truth and the meaning of Life With The Internet The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration the worldrsquos most powerful tech company hires a failed novelist Josh Cohen to ghostwrite his memoirs The mogul known as Principal brings Josh behind the digital veil tracing the rise of Tetration which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones computers and the surveillance of American citizens Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication Insider tech exposeacute leaked memoir-in-progress international thriller family drama sex comedy and biblical allegory Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off Embodying the Internet in its language it finds the humanity underlying the virtual Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age a triumph of a new generation of writers and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do Please note that Book of Numbers uses a special pagination system inspired by binary notation the part number precedes the page number and is separated from it by a decimal point Praise for Book of Numbers ldquoJoshua Cohen is the Great American Novelist Like Pynchon and Wallace Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything Cohen has turned the tables on the Internet Instead of being reduced by its omniscience he forces it to serve his imaginative purposes If John Henry is going to compete with the steam engine he needs an almost superhuman energy and intelligence of his ownmdashand if any writer has it it is Joshua CohenrdquomdashTablet ldquoThe next candidate for the Great American Novel David Foster Wallacendashlevel audaciousrdquomdashDetails ldquoJoshua Cohen is a startlingly talented novelist His deeply rewarding novel is about an online religion gone wrongmdashand its importance lies in the fact that nearly all of us in the modernized world are members of that faith whether we know it or notrdquomdashThe Wall Street JournalldquoFrequently hilarious high satire of our digital world a stranger more layered critique than say Dave Eggersrsquos The Circlemdasha book after William Gaddisrsquos heart that will be around well after most summer reads have been recycled or deletedrdquomdashNew York ldquoA monstrous talent and restive roiling intellect Other recent literary novels have treated the dot-com-mania reboot its flagship companies and their lsquodisruptiversquo technologiesmdashPynchonrsquos Bleeding Edge Dave Eggersrsquos The Circlemdashbut Cohenrsquos is the bestrdquomdashBookforum ldquoThink David Foster Wallace meets David Mitchell meets the search history that you just clearedrdquomdashEsquire.
