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The Book of Getting Even.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| June 09, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Gabriel Geismar, the embattled protagonist of Taylor's excellent second novel, is the son of a domineering rabbi growing up in nineteen-fifties New Orleans. Homosexual, suffering from a physical deformity (he has a supernumerary thumb), and enthralled by mathematics--"calculability, sweet detachment from the corporeal universe"--Gabriel has "a furious craving for other, nobler origins." In college, he meets Marghie and Danny Hundert, whose famous physicist father is one of his ...

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