- Black holes (Astronomy), California, Discoveries in science, Fiction
What if your lover left you for, well, nothing? Literally nothing. Particle physicist Alice Coombs and her colleagues are on the cusp of an extraordinary discovery. They have created a void, a hole in the universe, a true nothingness that they have named "Lack."
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Contemporary, intimate, comic and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Lethem
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 210
- Publisher
- Editions de l'Olivier, Faber and Faber, DEBOLSILLO
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780571205899
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