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Author: Jeanette WintersonFormat: --
Publisher: Vintage BooksISBN-10: 0679777423
ISBN-13: 9780679777427Educational Level: --
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A novel that, in telling the story of a three-sided international love affair, includes a consideration of the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of modern physics.

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Length:223 pages
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The high-wire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, a place where gender is as elastic as matter. "Dazzling for its intelligence and inventiveness".--"Elle".
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.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. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. 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."Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder...A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement
"Dazzling for [its] intelligence and inventiveness...[Winterson] is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."--Elle
"One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

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"It is a mad, beautiful, prophetic book, the Big Idea novel of our days....Although the novel takes the love triangle as its theme, it is hard to care what happens to Alice, Stella and Jove. Jeanette Winterson is more interested in being a prophetess than in talking about or indeed entertaining human beings. But for all its presumptuousness, 'Gut Symmetries' has a crazy surreal force and its superstitions are, if nothing else, picturesque."
Times Literary Supplement - Katy Emck (01/03/1997)

"It will not yield up all its riches and allusions on a first, or even a second reading. you must live with the patchwork quilt and examine a piece of it more closely every day. Then, at last, you see that every picture does indeed tell a story."
Literary Review - Susan Hill (01/19/1997)

"[S]trangely enough, this is not a negligible book. It is a work of high literary ambition....If it fails to perform the humdrum functions of a novel adequately, it nonetheless has many brilliantly sophisticated sentences and paragraphs. Perhaps it can best be appreciated as a disguised self-portrait, a carefully prepared presentation of a hyperaesthetic sensibility..."
Spectator - David Sexton (01/04/1997)

"[A]lthough she gives the last word to the expansive-souled women, she presents the story of their quests with a hard-edged clarity that saves this extravagant tale from falling into the formless, self-validating void of New Age wool-gathering."
Wall Street Journal - Merle Rubin (04/11/1997)

"Like its predecessors, this is a short book but not a quick read....At every turn..., her fresh, vivid way of putting things stops one dead in admiration."
New York Times Book Review - Bruce Bawer (05/11/1997)

"A major book, by any standard."
Faust 

"If Winterson's goal is to take her readers beyond traditional boundaries, her books provide abundant supplies for the journey....The path is, of course, not straight and it leads in multiple directions simultaneously, but in a Winterson book, you learn by going. Even if you don't follow every turn and angle, the journey is well worth the walk."
Steinem 


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Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

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Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0679777423
Publication Date: 1998-07-28
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 240
Height: 0.7000 inches
Width: 5.1000 inches
Weight: 0.5000 pounds

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