Particles and Luck
Particles and Luck by Louis B. Jones, published by National Geographic Books on June 28, 1994, is a reprint edition comprising 320 pages. The narrative centers on Mark Perdue, a physicist grappling with the randomness of his success, and Roger Hoberman, a pizza franchise owner facing personal and financial turmoil. Their lives intersect on a memorable Halloween night due to an unexpected claim on their adjoining properties, leading to a unique exploration of luck and human connection.
Readers will find a blend of comedy and philosophical inquiry as the story unfolds, highlighting the contrasting lives of its protagonists. The book delves into themes of luck, relationships, and the complexities of human experience, all while maintaining a lighthearted tone. With its literary focus, Particles and Luck offers an engaging examination of how chance influences both personal and scientific realms.
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Mark Perdue and Roger Hoberman have nothing in common—except the joy of adjoining yards. Mark is a whiz-kid physicist who knows that his “genius” stature and his endowed chair at Berkeley are bits of dumb luck; Roger is the owner of a pizza franchise whose luck has turned dumb—in financial and marital distress, he has been denied child visitation rights but not babysitting obligations.
Now luck, in the form of an adverse claim on their property, brings Mark and Roger together for a fateful Halloween night neither of them will ever forget. Loony, humane, and transcendently wise, Particles and Luck is an irresistible comedy of manners and epistemology.
“A lovely and invigorating novel . . . a domestic farce and social satire. Jones writes [an] engaging novelistic equivalent of a unified field theory—in this case, a link between the human heart and the behavior of subatomic particles.”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
“Jones is the real thing—a writer with something to say and his own way of saying it.”—Scott Turow
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