{"product_id":"as-she-climbed-across-the-table-by-jonathan-lethem","title":"As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassion, humor, yearning and knowledge, blended together in a suspenseful love story that could be characterized as \"American Magical Realism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43463180648522,"sku":"6471by","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6471by.jpg?v=1775015181","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/as-she-climbed-across-the-table-by-jonathan-lethem","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}