Leaning Towards Infinity | Sue Woolfe
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This is not my story. It is the story of Frances Montrose, an Australian woman with no formal mathematics training who carried across the world, in a borrowed suitcase bulging with a friend's balldresses, something no one knew about. The discovery of a new number. I can barely add up so I can't tell you much about her mathematics. Only to say she was a genius. And she was my mother, my love, my emptiness. Her mathematics was her secret passion and her curse. And my curse too. PRAISE FROM AROUND THE WORLD: 'What a glorious, nourishing, tumultuous novel ... in the great Australian tradition of Patrick White and Christina Stead.' FAY WELDON 'Woolfe's name can sit beside Marquez's with barely a blush.' THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) 'Beautiful, inventive writing ... an unflinching exploration of the complex bond of love' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US) 'captivating from the very first line ...' BOSTON GLOBE 'a rich, character-driven novel ...' ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH 'a novel about the sensuousness of mathematics ... a lyrical book, the deepest novel of ideas I've read in years' THE BALTIMORE SUN 'luminous ... Woolfe artfully traces the endless spirals of memory, desire, and ambition among a family of women moving restlessly through their lives ...Most readers will find themselves wishing that Leaning Towards Infinity would, in fact, never end.' MS MAGAZINE 'Woolfe's writing about motherhood is brave and frank ... Australian women welcomed the book for its realism and fearlessness, as well as for the wonderful story it tells and the important ideas it probes.' SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST 'Witty and seductive.' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN 'brilliant' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'With this book, Sue Woolfe places herself amongst the finest of Australian writers ... I would not be surprised if it became a cult book of great durability.' THOMAS KENEALLY 'Tremendously original and inventive.' KATE GRENVILLE
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