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Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

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Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of modern physics, Winterson incorporates the entire universe from Liverpool to New York, from quarks to cosmos - in a novel of sex and the spirit, the real and the fantastic, male and female, science and religion, and love in all its frailty and excess.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Jul 28th, 1998
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.25in - 0.71in - 0.58lb
  • EAN: 9780679777427
  • Categories: • Literary• LGBTQ+ - General• Visionary & Metaphysical

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About the Author

A novelist whose honours include England's Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy's E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the Cannes Film Festival, JEANETTE WINTERSON burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. She lives in London and the Cotswolds.

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Looking for your next read? You're in the right place. Personalized recs, alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays and always here: https://t.co/WMEobU4K8g

@charles_leroy Have you read Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson? It brings Grand Unified Theories (and lots of other stuff) into a novel about a love triangle.

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Master list-maker. Minor revolutionary. Words in/soon: @AQReview @orion_magazine @terrainorg @undersunonline @thecitronreview @jmww #binders She/her 🏳️‍🌈

@iproposethis Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson. SO good!

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Native Californian. Constant reader, occasional writer, former teacher. Quotes are mostly from what I’m reading. #MelvilleMonday

Reading Jeanette Winterson on #MelvilleMonday : It began with a boat, like “The Tempest,” like “Moby Dick,” a finite enclosure of floating space, a model of the world in little. from Gut Symmetries https://t.co/Y9Kwk7qbCO

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Praise for this book

"Brilliant ... [Gut Symmetries] scintillates with a language live enough to carry a wild musing on the largest issues of our existence." - The Globe and Mail

"Beyond comparison.... Few writers can contend with Jeanette Winterson.... She writes like a demon drunk with love, and if there's a sentence in Gut Symmetries that doesn't startle readers with its bravery and wit, then they're not reading hard enough." - The Chronicle-Journal

"Fascinating, provocative.... Jeanette Winterson proves she is as literarily nimble as she is intellectually stimulating." - The Montreal Gazette

"Riveting ... [Winterson] expresses the range of the human soul with startling ingenuity." - The Vancouver Sun

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