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product_id: 45253387
title: "As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)"
brand: "jonathan lethem"
price: "$55"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
category: "Paperback"
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# As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

**Brand:** jonathan lethem
**Price:** $55
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- **What is this?** As She Climbed Across the Table: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by jonathan lethem
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Particle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes Alice in Wonderland in its mad tumble through a rearranged reality. Narrator Phillip Engstrand is a university professor who has made a career out of studying academic environments. Engstrand is in love with Alice Coombs, a particle physicist engaged in a bold attempt to replicate the origins of the universe. The result of the experiment is Lack, a very selective black hole that sucks some things into its void--a cat, a pair of socks, a strawberry--and rejects others, namely, a love-struck Alice. As Alice's unrequited obsession with Lack grows, Phillip becomes so desperate to save his beloved from this empty rival that he risks a journey down the metaphysical rabbit hole.   Here the language of physics becomes the language of love: describing physics' "observer problem," Alice says, "Some people think the observer's consciousness determines the spin or even the existence of the electron." Later, as he stumbles to explain Alice's importance to him, Phillip tells her, "I'm not sure I really exist except under your observation." In this memorable little book, Lethem explores the cosmic possibilities of love.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-04*