Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

Gut Symmetries
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
28 July 1998
Pages
240
ISBN
9780679777427

Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

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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