As She Climbed Across the Table
Author: Jonathan Lethem
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 obsesse….Read More
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