![]() ![]() ![]() "One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers. ![]() is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."-Elle ![]() "Dazzling for intelligence and inventiveness. ISBN: 9781847087317 129x20mm 240 pages Paperback Gut Symmetries Jeanette Winterson Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice a bright, young physicist meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world’s most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. "Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder.A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."-Times Literary Supplement Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England's most flamboyantly gifted young writer. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. As this love triangle turns into a menage-a-trois, Alice, Stella and Jove struggle against. The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Joves mistress, an affair of the heart which is only complicated further when Alice meets Joves, wife, Stella a tempestuous beauty born with a diamond at the base of her spine. ![]()
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