As She Climbed Across the Table Paperback - 1998
by Jonathan Lethem
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.
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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.
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- Title As She Climbed Across the Table
- Author Jonathan Lethem
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1998-02-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780375700125 / 0375700129
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.15 x 4.98 x 0.59 in (20.70 x 12.65 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Humorous stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036287
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 09/11/2000, Page 71
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