| As She Climbed Across the Table
(1997)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
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| Publication Date |
1997 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(220
mm)
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| Publisher |
Doubleday |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
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." |
| Personal Details |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Store |
Amazon.com |
| Purchase Price |
$16.07 |
| Purchase Date |
9/25/1997 |
| Index |
270 |
| Read It |
Yes |
| Links |
URL
Amazon US
Amazon UK
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PS3562.E8544A9 1997 |
| Dewey |
813/.54 20 |
| ISBN |
0385485174 |
| Edition |
1st ed |
| Cover Price |
$22.95 |
| Nr of Pages |
212 |
| First Edition |
Yes |
| Rare |
No |
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