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    Gut Symmetries

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    Author Jeanette Winterson
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Jul 28, 1998 | 240 Pages | 9780679777427
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    One of England's most renown contemporary novelists 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.

    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 thrilling novel by one of England's most gifted young writers, filled with audacious characters and appetites, examining the parameters of lust, truth, and love.

    PRAISE FOR Gut Symmetries:

    "[A] masterfully written, highly suspenseful, and penetrating bisexual love story.... Winterson, ever innovative and unnerving even as she is enchanting, dives to remarkable emotional depths as she moves toward the revelation that "total beauty" is what makes life worth living."
    --Booklist

    "At every turn [Winterson's] fresh, vivid way of putting things stops one dead in admiration.... Ms. Winterson has struck gold herself."
    --New York Times Book Review
    © Mark Vesey
    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. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. View titles by Jeanette Winterson
    "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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    One of England's most renown contemporary novelists 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.

    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 thrilling novel by one of England's most gifted young writers, filled with audacious characters and appetites, examining the parameters of lust, truth, and love.

    PRAISE FOR Gut Symmetries:

    "[A] masterfully written, highly suspenseful, and penetrating bisexual love story.... Winterson, ever innovative and unnerving even as she is enchanting, dives to remarkable emotional depths as she moves toward the revelation that "total beauty" is what makes life worth living."
    --Booklist

    "At every turn [Winterson's] fresh, vivid way of putting things stops one dead in admiration.... Ms. Winterson has struck gold herself."
    --New York Times Book Review

    Author

    © Mark Vesey
    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. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. View titles by Jeanette Winterson

    Praise

    "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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