As She Climbed Across the Table

Copyright

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1998

Copyright © 1997 by Jonathan Lethem

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, New York, in 1997. This edition published by arrangement with Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lethem, Jonathan.

As she climbed across the table / Jonathan Lethem.

p. cm. — (Vintage contemporaries)

eISBN: 978-0-307-79149-8

1. Physicists—California—Fiction. 2. Discoveries in science—California—Fiction. 3. Occupational neuroses—Fiction. 4. Black holes (Astronomy)—Fiction. I. Title.

[PS3562.E8544A9 1998]

813′.54—dc21 97-36287

Author photograph © Ken Kobayashi

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