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Hinton Hardcover – April 2, 2020

by Mark Blacklock (Author)
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Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton's science fictions.

In a bravura and startling meeting of real and philosophical elements, Mark Blacklock has created a ravishing period piece of late-Victorian social, scientific and domestic life. Hinton is about extraordinary discoveries, and terrible choices. It is about people who discover and map other realms, and what the implications might be for those of us left behind.
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Granta Books
  4. Publication date
    April 2, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    5.31 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1783785209
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1783785209
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Granta Books; Illustrated edition (April 2, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783785209
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783785209
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.71 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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Mark Blacklock

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Mark Blacklock grew up in Sunderland and has since lived in Sheffield, Oxford, Tokyo, London and York. His first novel, I'm Jack, was published by Granta in 2015. Telling the story of the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer in his own voice, it was described by Iain Sinclair as 'Spare. Swift. Smart. And dangerous,' and by Tom McCarthy as 'a gripping study of self-creation and - ultimately - self-erasure.'

Mark teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London. His scholarly monograph, The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.

Mark's second novel, Hinton, a higher-dimensional romance, was published by Granta in 2020 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Award in 2021.

Mark's edition of JG Ballard's Non-Fiction is published by MIT Press on 24th October 2023.

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Mr P F Ruhemann
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and intriguing read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2020
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Loved Blacklock's first novel on the Yorkshire ripper. This one an extraordinary and intriguing life story brilliantly written.
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Phillip Kent
4.0 out of 5 stars An ambitious novel, interesting to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020
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Charles Howard Hinton is a well-known outsider figure in the history of mathematics; his academic career in England was wrecked after being prosecuted for bigamy, and he became a social outsider, spending the rest of his life living in exile in Japan and the USA. This book is evidently the outcome of many years of work by the author on Hinton's life and mathematical ideas (there is a blog dating back seven or eight years, and an academic monograph on the mathematical background was published by OUP).
I suppose the goal of the novel is to express something about the "feel" of Hinton's ideas rather than the mathematical details. I would recommend that if you don't know anything about the ideas you should prepare yourself first (for example, by reading Rudolf Rucker's excellent "The Fourth Dimension") because the novel doesn't explain them.
The novel is a good read, with some powerful moments. The curious thing that I felt at the end is that Hinton's own inner thoughts are hardly revealed - his character proceeds somewhat blissfully through the novel, pursuing his own peculiar thoughts and projects, right up to the moment of his unexpected death. Rather, the impacts of his ideas are experienced mostly through the not-too-happy lives of Hinton's wife and children (with, in the shadows, the second bigamous wife and two more children). Two sons go off the rails to tragic, early deaths. One son escapes the fatal atmosphere, living as an engineer in faraway Central America. The last son stays near home, struggling through to (history suggests) a reasonable mature life as a lawyer.
It's a good novel and worth taking time over the ideas and characters.
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