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Indlæser... As She Climbed Across the Table (original 1997; udgave 1998)af Jonathan Lethem (Forfatter)
Work InformationAs She Climbed Across the Table af Jonathan Lethem (1997)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Read this on audio. It was a random pick when I was searching thru Libby for a new audiobook. I like Lethem a lot, and this was one I hadn't heard of before. Its a short (under 6 hours) but weird tale that is essentially a love triangle story where Philip is in love with his physicist girlfriend Alice, but he is losing her, not to another man, but to nothing. Actually nothing, an anomaly in a lab, a hole, or perhaps a doorway, that they call "Lack". Is it sentient, or is there someone on the other side? Philip doesn't know and he's very concerned for Alice. One of his early works. Third, after Gun, with Occasional Music and Amnesia Moon. A very odd, but enjoyable read ( ) A lass and a Lack! What do you do when your girlfriend falls in love with a black hole? This is the premise of Jonathan Lethem's short, weird physics-meets-romance novel. There's a lot of fun wordplay and absurdity. There are many pompous academics. There are co-dependent couples (including two blind men who I pictured as Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones from Men in Black). I liked it, but it was a little too post-modern clever-clever for me to really care about the characters. El antrópologo Philip Engstrand y la física Alice Coombs trabajan en sendas facultades de una universidad en cuyo laboratorio se logrado crear un agujero de gusano bautizado como Ausencia. Este singuar fenómeno tiene como particularidad que es capaz de escoger qué es lo que absorbe y qué ignora, como si tuviera personalidad propia. Alice termina románticamente obsesionada por Ausencia y corta con todo, incluso su relación sentimental con Philip, quien, en ese punto, se verá obligado a averiguar todo lo que pueda a próposito de Ausencia y averiguar cómo ha podido atrapar también a Alice. My first Lethem, and totally not what I was expecting. I did not realize that he started out writing sci-fi, so this book was a surprise. It is also quite funny--I rarely find books that are supposed to be funny actually funny, but I very much enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor Lethe, offers up here. His graduate student studying the gravity-related injuries of athletes? Hilarious. Was this great? No. But it was a fairly quick enjoyable read, a nice break from the more serious (and drier) things I have been reading of late. Also, is this University of North California at Beauchamp meant to be Cal? Or a clone of Cal in this other world? Or just a mishmash place of public universities? ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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nbsp;nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing ... nothing at all.nbsp; Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice's spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of Gun, with Occasional Music. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste--tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it disdains a bow tie, an ice ax, and a scrambled duck egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates as an irresistible personality. To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws--because it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, As She Climbed Across the Table is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written.nbsp; No library descriptions found. |
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