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Review: A DOUBTER’S ALMANAC by Ethan Canin
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Review: A DOUBTER’S ALMANAC by Ethan Canin

A Doubter’s AlmanacEthan CaninRandom House, Feb 2016576 pp; $28 Mathematicians toil in obscurity, often for years, at work that will probably come to nothing. It doesn’t take a Fields Medalist to understand why a novelist, that most uncertain toiler of all, would be drawn to such a plight. Milo Andret, the genius at the center…