**Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller** The Raw Shark Texts**,** Maxwellβs Demon**heralds the triumphant return of** Granta**Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall** Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, heβs stuck writing short stories
Maxwell's Demon and detailed balancing
β Scribed by L. G. M. Gordon
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 503 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
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