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Lädt ... Als sie über den Tisch kletterte : Roman (1997)von Jonathan Lethem
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 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? keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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An early novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of solitude, now available for the first time on audio. 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." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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