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As She Climbed Across the Table

By Jonathan Lethem

Hardcover | 0385485174 | Details

Book Description

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. Continue

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."

Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 224 Pages
  • Edition: 1st ed
  • ISBN-10: 0385485174
  • ISBN-13: 9780385485173
  • Publisher: DoubleDay
  • Pub date: Feb 17, 1997
  • Dimensions: 22 cm x 15 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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