Description

The high-wire artist of the English book redraws the romantic triangle for that post-Einsteinian world, where sex is really as flexible as issue, and any correct Grand Unified Theory (GUT) should include wish alongside electromagnetism and gravity.One starry night on the ship in the middle-Atlantic, Alice, an excellent English theoretical physicist, starts an affair with Jove, her remorselessly sexy National version. But Jove is committed. When Alice affects his wife, Stella, she quickly falls in love with her, with effects which are by turns scary, stimulating, and witty. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the character to the skin, Gut Symmetries is just a thrillingly unique book by Britain's most flamboyantly talented small writer."Winterson is unparalleled among modern authors in her capability to create up new-world question,An attractive, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement"Stunning for [its] intelligence and originality,[Winterson] is possessed of the masterly control of the vocabulary and really a pliant imagination."--Elle"One-Of our most brilliant, experienced storytellers."--Bay Area Chronicle