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The goddess of small victories Cover Image Book Book

The goddess of small victories

Grannec, Yannick. (Author). Wood, Willard, (translator.).

Summary: "Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel--the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the 20th century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking belated revenge against the establishment by refusing to hand over these documents of immeasurable historical value. But as Anna soon finds out, Adele has a story of her own to tell"--Amazon.com.

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  • ISBN: 9781590516362
  • Physical Description: print
    458 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Other Press, 2014.

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Genre: Biographical fiction
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