Dr. No
- Bib ID:
- 8805579
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Everett, Percival, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2023
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781922791429 (EPUB eBook :)
- Summary:
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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.' Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of America's most inventive, provocative and productive writers. That it is about nothing isn't to say that it's not about anything. In fact, it's about villains. Bond villains. And that's not nothing. Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books, most recently The Trees (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Telephone (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize).
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- TEXT LOGO PAGE
- ABOUT THE BOOK
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- EPIGRAPH
- EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER
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- MIAMI
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- CORSICA
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- A BIJECTIVE FUNCTION
- 1
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- FOR ALL Y SUCH THAT
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- A DISTINCTION BETWEEN NAMES AND OTHER WORDS
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- CHASING TWO RABBITS
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- HUMPTY DUMPTY'S EXTREME PRACTICE
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- BEGRIFF UND GEGENSTAND
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- BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS AND THE FIFTH POSTULATE
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- IL N'Y A PAS DE HORS-TEXTE
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- ALSO BY PERCIVAL EVERETT
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- PRAISE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- NEW MARKETING PAGE.
- Notes:
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- General.
- Title details screen (OverDrive, viewed January 19, 2023)
- Subject:
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- College teachers -- Fiction
- Good and evil -- Fiction
- Mathematics teachers -- Fiction
- Nothing (Philosophy) -- Fiction
- Theft -- Fiction
- Villains -- Fiction
- College teachers
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Literary
- Good and evil
- Mathematics teachers
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Nothing (Philosophy)
- Theft
- Villains
- Other authors/contributors:
- Text Publishing
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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