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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
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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As She Climbed Across the Table
Our obsessions with others -- whether they be people, ideas, jobs, religions or the precise nature of reality itself -- are not really about the other. If we find ourselves obsessed, it's not because of some quality in the object of obsession, but ra ... (read full critics)
bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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Quite the pretentious little book
A story of cold people, coldly told. Not much to be interested in: the characters are so unlikable and incomprehensible they appear inhuman; the story spins on itself endlessly; the dialogues are a study in pretentiousness. Plus, and this is unforgivable: the parallel universe is such a let down.
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- English Books
- Hardcover 224 Pages
- Edition: 1st ed
- ISBN-10: 0385485174
- ISBN-13: 9780385485173
- Publisher: DoubleDay
- Pub date: Feb 17, 1997
- Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780385485173 | Hardcover | $22.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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It's a funny old universe
As She Climbed Across the Table Jonathan Lethem Faber & Faber £9.99, pp192 Buy it at a discount at BOL This is Jonathan Lethem's second novel to be published in the UK and like the first, Motherless Brooklyn, it has a wonderful momentum: compressed, ... (read full critics)