As She Climbed Across the Table

✍ Scribed by Lethem, Jonathan

• Book ID: 100166897
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 1997;2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Edition: Unabridged
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307791491

✦ Synopsis

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, Alices spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of Gun, with Occasional Music.
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 tastetastes; 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 flawsbecause it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, As She Climbed Across the Table is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written.

**BONUS MATERIAL:**This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem'sDissident Gardens.

A stunning novel of the physics of love by the critically acclaimed author of Gun, with Occasional Music and Amnesia Moon. When Alice Coombs, a physicist working on the creation of a void in the universe--dubbed "Lack"--falls out of love with Philip Engstrand and in love with Lack, Philip's desperate struggle to win her back makes for a very unusual love triangle.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780307791498