A pristine book. The authors DEBUT collection of short stories. "Iagnemma�s desperate, comic, and determined heroes seek, with beautiful futility, formulas for love, loss, history, religion, and odd arts. Here are crackpots and lovelorn, bewildered geniuses, sincerely seeking impossible truths. These are wonderful stories, and Karl Iagnemma is one of our very best young writers."--Brad Watson,

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Title: ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN ROMANTIC INTERACTION
Publisher: Dial Press, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385335938
ISBN 13: 9780385335935
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

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Winner of the Paris Review Discovery Prize for best first fiction and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2002, Karl Iagnemma has been recognized as a writer of rare talent. His literary terrain is the world of science, with its charged boundary between the rational mind and the restless heart.

In Iagnemma’s stories, mathematicians and theoreticians, foresters and doctors, yearn to create bonds as steadfast as the equations and principles that anchor their lives. A frustrated academic tries to diagram his troubled relationship with his girlfriend but fails to create a formula for romance. A nineteenth-century phrenologist must reexamine the connection between knowledge and passion when a young con-woman beats him at his own game. A jaded professor dreams endlessly of his two obsessions: a beautiful former colleague and the theorem that made her famous.

Inventive, wise, funny, and disquieting, Karl Iagnemma’s first collection attests to his spirited imagination and his prodigious literary gifts.

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In addition to winning the Paris Review Discovery Prize and being selected for Best American Short Stories, Karl Iagnemma has won a Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in Tin House, Zoetrope: All Story, and One Story, among other publications. He currently works as a research scientist in the mechanical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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