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.
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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.
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Winterson pulls the reader along for the ride, charging headlong through entwining, compulsive, mythical entanglements of intense desire, lust and love. The pace never lets up as elements of theoretical physics and mystical symbolism are drawn into the spiraling chaos, enriching the experience as the story cascades towards its unexpected conclusion.
