{"product_id":"as-she-climbed-across-the-table-9780375700125","title":"As She Climbed Across the Table","description":"\u003cp\u003e Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing ... nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice's spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eGun, with Occasional Music\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste--tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it disdains a bow tie, an ice ax, and a scrambled duck egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates as an irresistible personality. To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws--because it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, \u003ci\u003eAs She Climbed Across the Table\u003c\/i\u003e is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Lethem is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGun, with Occasional Music\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAmnesia Moon\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Girl in Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMotherless Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written a collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276515115282,"sku":"9780375700125","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_324e80f2-d416-44a7-9aa5-fca7b3a49cc7.jpg?v=1747130296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/as-she-climbed-across-the-table-9780375700125","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}