As She Climbed Across the Table Lethem Jonathan
As She Climbed Across the Table Lethem Jonathan Philip is in love with Alice. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. They call…
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As She Climbed Across the Table Lethem Jonathan
Philip is in love with Alice. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her.
They call it "Lack." Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice. 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. 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
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