Strange Attractors: Stories
A National Jewish Honor Book composed of seven short stories from the author of The Mind-Body Problem.
A mathematician studies the geometry of soap bubbles and responds to the rapture of infatuation by reciting Shakespeare in Yiddish. A group of Olympian intellects is made childlike by the appearance of a double rainbow. Becky Sharp steps out of the pages of Vanity Fair to confound a pretentious philosopher. These are just some of the marvelous and unlikely things that happen in Strange Attractors — a collection of stories that explores the interactions of thought and feeling, mind and heart, to reveal the deep, mysterious ties between seemingly unrelated lives.
"A wonderful collection ... A picture of remarkable depth and complexity." — Los Angeles Times
"Electric and compelling ... Rebecca Goldstein brings a keen and specially informed vision to our world." — Newsday
"Rebecca Goldstein again probes the relationships between female intellect and emotion — this time in a sparkling, erudite collection in which brilliant women's minds dictate their romantic attachments while their gender continues to dictate their fate." — Kirkus Reviews
- Author
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-017246-1
- EAN
- 9780140172461
- Genres
- fiction, philosophy, american
- Release date
- 1994
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