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Grand Central Publishing
November 2008
On Sale: October 29, 2008
Featuring: Theodore Mead Fegley
400 pages
ISBN: 0446199710
EAN: 9780446199711
Hardcover
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Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he
knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was
attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender
age of 18, he's on the verge of proving the Riemann
Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified
academics for almost 150 years. But only days before
graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to
rural Illinois. What has caused him to flee remains a
mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for
success has turned into a dangerous obession.
At
home, Mead finds little solace. His past ghosts haunt him;
his parents don't understand the agony his genius has caused
him, nor his desire to be a normal kid, and his dreams seem
crushed forever. He embarks on a new life's journey --
learning the family business of selling furniture and
embalming the dead--that disappoints and surprises all who
knew him as "the young Fegley genius."
Equal parts
academic thriller and poignant coming-of-age story, LIFE
AFTER GENIUS follows the remarkable journey of a young man
who must discover that the heart may know what the head
hasn't yet learned.
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