"Tender, hilarious, and packed with delightful surprises . . . If Einstein and John Cleese had written a novel together, this would be it." \--Joseph Weisberg, author of _10th Grade_ Four friends set out into the night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, undeterred by the fact that one of them might
Schrödinger's Ball
✍ Scribed by Adam Felber
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"Tender, hilarious, and packed with delightful surprises . . . If Einstein and John Cleese had written a novel together, this would be it."
--Joseph Weisberg, author of 10th Grade
Four friends set out into the night in Cambridge, Massachusetts, undeterred by the fact that one of them might actually be dead. Deb has perfected the half-hour orgasm. Grant, a geek, desperately desires Deb. Depressed Arlene has just improbably slept with Johnny, their leader, who recently and accidentally shot himself to death.
But is he (or anyone) alive or dead until he's observed to be by someone else? Maybe not, according to Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, the renowned physicist (1887--1961) who is, strangely, still ambling through the Ivy League town, offering opinions and proofs about how our perceptions can bring to life--and, in turn, reduce and destroy--other people and ourselves. And what does Schrodinger have to do with the President of Montana, who just declared...
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