The Zero and the One: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• A gripping, intellectually agile book that dresses like a coming of age narrative, but soon reveals itself to be something new, wholly original and philosophically rich. If you've ever read a crime novel and wished for a deeper answer to the mystery-an existential Whydunnit rather than a Whodunnit-then this masterful work by Ryan Ruby will thrill you, and give you much ominous food for thought.

  — Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine

• Ryan Ruby has written a brilliant and captivating novel...dark as Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, with...a setting that reminds one of Evelyn Waugh, and...texture that evokes P.G. Wodehouse. It's as sharp as a tack, and the pages turn themselves.

  — Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

• Beautifully written and minutely observed, THE ZERO AND THE ONE brilliantly encapsulates the agony and the ecstasy of the search for meaning in late adolescence.

  — Jenny Davison, author of The Magic Circle and Reading Style: A Life in Sentences

• THE ZERO AND THE ONE is brilliantly erudite, deeply engaging, and full of heart. Ryan Ruby has captured something surprising--the ineluctable sadness of youth.

  — Lauren Elkins, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

• Beautifully written and minutely observed, THE ZERO AND THE ONE brilliantly encapsulates the agony and the ecstasy of the search for meaning in late adolescence.

  — Jenny Davidson, author of The Magic Circle and Reading Style: A Life in Sentences

• THE ZERO AND THE ONE is brilliantly erudite, deeply engaging, and full of heart. Ryan Ruby has captured something surprising--the ineluctable sadness of youth.

  — Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

• A gripping, intellectually agile book that dresses like a coming of age narrative, but soon reveals itself to be something new, wholly original and philosophically rich. If you've ever read a crime novel and wished for a deeper answer to the mystery - an existential Whydunnit rather than a Whodunnit - then this masterful work by Ryan Ruby will thrill you, and give you much ominous food for thought.

  — Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine

• Ryan Ruby has written a brilliant and captivating novel...dark as Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, with...a setting that reminds one of Evelyn Waugh, and...texture that evokes P.G. Wodehouse. It's as sharp as a tack, and the pages turn themselves.

  — Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

• A ferocious hybrid of a book: part novel of philosophy, part thriller, completely absorbing. It's the sort of book you read in a day - reminded, between gulps, of The Secret History and The Talented Mr. Ripley - and then spend months thinking about.

  — Ben Dolnick, author of Zoology and At the Bottom of Everything