As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel

Lethem, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0385485174 / ISBN 13: 9780385485173

Published by Doubleday, New York, NY, 1997

About this Item

Signed by Jonathan Lethem on the title page with no inscription; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cove.

Seller Inventory # 020251

Bibliographic Details

• Title: As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385485174
• ISBN 13: 9780385485173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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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."