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Authors: Ethan Canin

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Professor Gamble
Nunquam Cede
Scrivener’s Errors
Conjecture
The Tristate Singularity
Flatland
A Marrow Lover’s Feast
A Nonconforming Interval
The Reluctant Cartesian
The Real Are Almost All Irrational
Thomson’s Lamp
Disciplina in Civitatem
Molly and Sally
Summation
Salads
Non-Brownian Gray
Analysis Situs
Proof
Drunkard’s Walk
Alpha
A Topologist’s Apology
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Theodicy
The Expected Teaches Nothing
Easy Does It
The Truth at Last
Brompton’s Mixture
The Sum of Infinitesimals
The Witch of Agnesi
A Unifying Conjecture
Contra Deum
The Lord’s Daughter
Proof by Exhaustion
4656534
The Curse of Knowledge
Mysterium Cosmographicum
Drake
The Battle of Trafalgar

Epigraph

Dedication

By Ethan Canin

About the Author

A Late Arrival

F
ROM THE KITCHEN
window, Milo Andret watched the bridge over the creek, and when he saw Earl Biettermann’s white Citroën race across the span he hurried out the door and picked up a short hoe. Biettermann was driving too fast.
Reckless
was the word for it—but that’s the way he’d always been. Arrogant. Heedless. Lucky to stumble onto the right roads, the right career, the right woman. Lucky even to be alive. For any other driver, the route from the bridge to the cabin would take five minutes: Andret figured it would take Biettermann three.

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