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Author:

Everett, Percival.

Title:

Dr. No / Percival Everett.

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

262 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Mathematics teachers--Fiction.
College teachers--Fiction.
Nothing (Philosophy)--Fiction.
Theft--Fiction.
Villains--Fiction.
Good and evil--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

1644452081
9781644452080

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1350098761

LCCN:

2022930735

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

FGPD194 -- New Hampton Public Library (New Hampton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)