Book by Lethem Jonathan
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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."
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Former Library book. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (physicists, blackholes, fiction). Artikel-Nr. X08H-00770
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Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
First edition thus. Preview edition of the first paperback edition. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Artikel-Nr. 109020
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Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Later printing. Pages lightly age-toned, spine cocked, near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Science fiction romance. Artikel-Nr. 462366
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
Zustand: As New. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. In protective mylar cover. Artikel-Nr. N18OS-00078
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Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Fine. Artikel-Nr. 536807
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Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
First edition. Hardcover. His fourth book. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Boldly signed by Lethem on the title page. Artikel-Nr. 109006
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