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As she climbed across the table

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."

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  • "As she climbed across the table"@pl

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  • "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.""@en
  • "Professor Philip Engstrand loses the love of his life, a particle physicist named Professor Alice Coombs, to an artificially created nothingness she and her colleagues call Lack, a rift in the universe that acts much like nothing."
  • "A send-up on academia in which a California scientist discovers a gateway to an alternate universe. The gateway works similarly to a black hole in that it swallows matter, and the story concerns a man professor saving a woman professor from being swallowed."@en
  • "A send-up on academia in which a California scientist discovers a gateway to an alternate universe. The gateway works similarly to a black hole in that it swallows matter, and the story concerns a man professor saving a woman professor from being swallowed."

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  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Cuentos humorísticos"@es
  • "Love stories"@es
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Cuentos de amor"@es
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@es
  • "Humorous fiction"

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  • "Kiedy wspięła się na stół"
  • "Kiedy wspięła się na stół"@pl
  • "Alice est montée sur la table"
  • "Kiedy wspiela sie na stól"
  • "Als sie über den Tisch kletterte : Roman"
  • "As she climbed across the table"@en
  • "As she climbed across the table"
  • "Als sie über den Tisch kletterte Roman"
  • "As she climbed across the table : [a novel]"
  • "Cuando Alice se subió a la mesa"
  • "Cuando Alice se subió a la mesa"@es

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