As She Climbed Across the Table

Name: As She Climbed Across the Table
Brand: Random House
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By Jonathan Lethem

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Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it "Lack." Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice. The novel is at the same time an astute and wise portrait of unrequited love (albeit of a very unusual kind) a hilarious academic parody, a novel of ideas and a social satire. It is utterly original, but in the school of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Katherine Dunn, and David Foster Wallace. Passion, humor, yearning and knowledge, blended together in a suspenseful love story that could be characterized as "American Magical Realism." "From the Hardcover edition.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 226
Publisher:: Random House
Publication Date:: 1998-02-24
Release Date:: 1998-03-01
ISBN / EAN:: 9780375700125
Weight:: 185 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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