As She Climbed Across the Table - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jonathan Lethem (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written. Professor Philip Engstrom is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist who, unfortunately has fallen in love with Lack, an artificially created nothingness, a rift in the universe that absorbs some things and disdains others. For this reason, Alice finds Lack an irresistibly mysterious personality--something that makes it an unbeatable rival for Philip. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing ... nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice's spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of <i>Gun, with Occasional Music</i>.<br> Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste--tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it disdains a bow tie, an ice ax, and a scrambled duck egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates as an irresistible personality. To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws--because it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, <i>As She Climbed Across the Table</i> is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Exceptionally clever. . . . A book of compelling ideas, of intellectual conflict, of human frailty and desire. And it's funny.--<i>Dallas Morning News <p/>Jonathan Lethem has succeeded in delivering a wonderland on the side of the looking glass, --San Francisco Bay Guardian <p/>Lethem is opening blue sky for American fiction. . . . He is rapidly evolving into his own previously uncataloged species. --Village Voice Literary Supplement <p/>Wickedly funny. --Columbus DIspatch <p/>An oddball tour de force. --Entertainment Weekly </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jonathan Lethem is the author of the novels <i>Gun, with Occasional Music</i>; <i>Amnesia Moon</i>;<i> Girl in Landscape</i>;<i> </i>and <i>Motherless Brooklyn</i>, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written a collection of stories, <i>The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye</i>. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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