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As She Climbed Across the Table (Vintage Contemporaries)
As She Climbed Across the Table - Vintage Contemporaries
Author: Jonathan Lethem
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 wit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375700125
ISBN-10: 0375700129
Publication Date: 2/24/1998
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 24 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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tennesseedog avatar reviewed As She Climbed Across the Table (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 24 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This is an exciting and imaginative fiction work by a great, young, Brooklyn-based author. He mixes science, psychology and fantasy all within an academic setting and comes out with a winner. If this story does not leave you shaking your head and smiling you need to refreshen.
Naiche avatar reviewed As She Climbed Across the Table (Vintage Contemporaries) on + 91 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Let it be said: I love Lethem's writing. While everything I've read by him is excellent, they have all been very different books.

This one is a surreal heart-breaker, the story of a relationship going slowly down the tubes in the oddest way possible. One the one hand, you feel for the protagonists as they suffer, on the other hand, you're dying to see what bizarre event comes next. Even though virtually nothing happens in the entire book, the pace is fast and the emotions strong.
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