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Title	:	Gut Symmetries
Author	:	Jeanette Winterson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 219 pages
Published	:	March 25th 1997 by Random House Value Publishing
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. Novels

Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

Hardcover | Pages: 219 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 4321 Users | 255 Reviews

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Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not the first writer to make a major character a physicist. Jonathan Lethem mined similar territory earlier this year in his delightful book, As She Climbed Across the Table, and now Winterson enters the lists with not one, but two physicists populating the pages of her equally wonderful book, Gut Symmetries. If you think about it, physics does make a good metaphor for love, encompassing as it does the principles of attraction, the exchange of energy, and unification. At the center of this meditation on "the intelligence of the universe" and "the stupidity of humankind" are Jove, a married physicist; Alice, a single physicist who becomes his mistress; and Stella, Jove's wife and later, Alice's lover. They meet on the QE2 and from there the three participants in the story take turns telling their versions of it.

Gut Symmetries is a collage of memories, snippets of scientific theory, meditations on abstract concepts like truth, and the events surrounding Jove, Alice, and Stella's affair. This is a book that demands your attention, jumping as it does from one seemingly tangential topic to another; but whereas physics still seeks a grand unification theory (GUT) to explain how everything in the universe fits together, Winterson actually finds one of her own in this satisfyingly complete fictional world.

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Original Title:	Gut Symmetries
ISBN:	0517286939 (ISBN13: 9780517286937)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jupiter (God)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (1997)

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Ratings: 3.8 From 4321 Users | 255 Reviews

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Anything I write will make me/my experience with this book sound trite, so I'll just say one thing and then let Jeanette Winterson explain my feelings, as she seems to be uniquely capable of doing.1) I have not lived a text as deeply/viscerally as I did this one in so, so long. I knew from five pages in that I was reading a five star book.2)"They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the

'the sign of scorpio takes as its symbols the scorpion and the eagle. if its higher nature is as lofty as its mountain haunts, its nether part is creviced and hostile. the poisoner and the scientist are one. and both. hired by the town of basle to cure its epidemic of syphilis paracelsus despatched as many as he re-hatched. the mediaevals were entrail-minded and paracelsus often delivered his lectures over a scalpelled corpse. this was not the nineteenth century model of diagnosis by pathology.

Time.Newton visualised time as an arrow flying towards its target. Einstein understood time as a river, moving forward, forceful, directed, but also bowed, curved, sometimes, subterranean, not ending but pouring itself into a greater sea. A river cannot flow against its current, but it can flow in circles; its eddies and whirlpools regularly break up its strong press forward. The riverrun is maverick, there is a high chance of cross-current, a snag of time that returns us without warning to a

This is an intriguing novel in the sense that it often reads as a quantum physics text but always in the service of a larger romantic agenda. If understanding the connection between gravity and love isn't your thang, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. That said, Winterson throws some quality quotes in there that would look good on your fridge or facebook, and this was my main source of enjoyment. If you like Winterson's style, I would highly recommend "Written on the Body" instead.

One of the most lyrical prose writers to be writing. Winterson's writing is fast, rhythmic, and at the same time poetic and akin to Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness stylings. It is a delicious pleasure to read. The plot of Gut Symmetries is fascinating and gripping in the most punctually unusual but perfect way. Definitely five stars.

i'm only a chapter or two in and i'm already losing interest. what others seem to find poetic about the language, i'm finding overly purple and obtuse. i kept wanting to roll my eyes. i guess jeanette winterson is not my thing.

Highly-strung physicist Alice starts an affair with rapacious older professor Jove during a teaching assignment on the QE2. When news of the affair reaches Jove's wife Stella, the women meet and find themselves in a relationship too. They have to make a decision, and it seems that only a yachting trip will split the triangle for good - but in what direction?Yes, it's another fictional portrayal of polyamory where the trifecta is triggered by the male's philandering and is driven by guilt, deceit