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Gut Symmetries

By Jeanette Winterson
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Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson is a complex exploration of love, physics, and the intertwined lives of its characters. Set against the backdrop of a journey across the Atlantic, it delves into the love triangle between two physicists and a poet. Through their relationships, the story weaves themes of time, identity, and the universe, challenging the boundaries between science and mysticism.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by intertwining themes of love, physics, and philosophy, beautifully crafted through a poetic narrative. The novel delves into the complexities of human relationships and explores universal concepts with a unique blend of humour and insight. If you appreciate stories that challenge conventional storytelling and provoke thought, this novel may be an intriguing read.

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Gut Symmetries

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges are not the Only Fruit and Why be Happy When you Could be Normal?

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice—a bright, young physicist—meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair of the heart which is only complicated further when Alice meets Jove's wife, Stella; a tempestuous beauty born with a diamond at the base of her spine.

As this love triangle turns into a ménage à trois, Alice, Stella, and Jove struggle against the currents immersing them, while their romance pulls into its wake the stories of other generations, philosophies, quantum physics, and time travel.

A celebration of the human heart in all its frailty, confusion, and excess, Gut Symmetries is a lyrical evocation of parallel lives, loves, and universes, from one of Britain's best-loved authors.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781847087317

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 April 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 173g

Pages: 240

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Fiction General Fiction Jeanette Winterson Literary Fiction

About the Author

JEANETTE WINTERSON was born in 1959. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won a Whitbread Award in 1985. Her adaptation of the novel for television won a BAFTA in 1990. Her other books include The Passion, which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, Gut Symmetries, Lighthousekeeping, The Stone Gods and a memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal.

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