As She Climbed Across the Table

Lethem, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0385485174 / ISBN 13: 9780385485173

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1997

About this Item

New York: Doubleday:, 1997. First edition, hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 212 pp. Cover artwork by: david J, High Short stories. First edition, hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,

Seller Inventory # 21347

Bibliographic Details

• Title: As She Climbed Across the Table
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385485174
• ISBN 13: 9780385485173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: david J, High
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Fiction

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Synopsis

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."

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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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Passion, humor, yearning and knowledge, blended together in a suspenseful love story that could be characterized as "American Magical Realism."