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As She Climbed Across the Table

By Jonathan Lethem

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As She Climbed Across the Table

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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
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
1998-03-01
Publication Date:
1998-02-24
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375700129
ISBN13:
9780375700125
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
185 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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