Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
"Lovely prose, at once robust and luminous.... The beauty of Jeanette Winterson's writing propels this novel". -- Washington Post Book World
The high-wire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, a place where gender is as elastic as matter.
Gut Symmetries is an appropriate title for a book whose protagonists include Alice and Jove, two theoretical physicists who are conducting a high-voltage adulterous love affair when they are not seeking a Grand Unified Theory of nature. When Alice confronts Jove's wife, Stella, she quickly falls in love with her, resulting in consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing.
Vaulting flora 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 writer.
"Dazzling for (its) intelligence and inventiveness.... (Winterson) is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination". -- Elle
"Her prose is luminous, precocious, naughtily excessive". -- Time Out
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson is the author of five works of fiction, a comic book, two screenplays and, most recently, a collection of essays. She has received the Whitbread Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the E.M. Forster Award.
From the Trade Paperback edition.