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Named One of the Best Books of the Year by VOGUE and VOX. The Free Press's August Book Club pick.

A 'very funny, very good' (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage)

Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts academics other schools have thrown out?
 
Helen decides she must go—her work is too important. She brings along her partner, Hew, who is much less sanguine about living on an island where t

How I Won a Nobel Prize A Novel

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      Publisher Little Brown and Company
      Published 12 September 2023
      ISBN-13 9780316513074
      978-0316513074
      ISBN-10 0316513075

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named One of the Best Books of the Year by VOGUE and VOX. The Free Press's August Book Club pick.

      A 'very funny, very good' (B. J. Novak) debut novel about a graduate student who follows her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage)

      Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts academics other schools have thrown out?
       
      Helen decides she must go—her work is too important. She brings along her partner, Hew, who is much less sanguine about living on an island where t

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