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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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-017246-1
  • EAN
  • 9780140172461
  • Genres
  • fiction, philosophy, american
  • Release date
  • 1994