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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. 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*. 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.words : 48438

Who reads As She Climbed Across the Table : A Novel?

Author

Lethem, Jonathan

Publisher

VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307791498

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (4,125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14