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02912aam a2200541 i 4500 001 1A81392E720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221202010048 008 220118s2022 mnu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022930735 020 $a 1644452081 020 $a 9781644452080 035 $a (OCoLC)1350098761 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IG$ $d CLE $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Everett, Percival. 245 10 $a Dr. No / $c Percival Everett. 260 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Graywolf Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 262 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing.') He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, 'Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back.'" -- Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Mathematics teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a College teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nothing (Philosophy) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Theft $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Villains $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Good and evil $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 941 $a 18 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515010714.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043333.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014913.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231114010622.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025014335.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031122.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20230824014441.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230526011337.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503011751.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230405013449.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230401010235.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011212.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203020105.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230104010218.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20221231011557.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20221228010440.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221206012507.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20221202011752.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1A81392E720F11EDB6E4AA0447ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search