![]() ![]() ![]() but her crystalline prose is too icy for the passionate subject-matter. Winterson's great talent and intellectual reach and originality are in evidence. When Jove warns Alice,""I need time,"" Alice ponders Einstein's theory of time. Winterson's characters are more often mouthpieces for ideas than believable people. The finale involves Jove and Stella getting lost at sea on a solitary yacht-trip. They soon include Jove in their relationship. There, after a self-conscious, elliptical conversation, the two women fall in love. She agrees to meet Alice at the Algonquin, however. Back in Manhattan, Jove's wife of 24 years, Stella, is heartbroken to learn of the liaison in a letter from Alice. The two fall breathlessly in love and begin an affair. While giving lectures on the 15th-century alchemist Paracelsus aboard a cruise on the QE2, Alice, a bright young physicist, meets Jove, a married man and more established physicist also on the lecture-circuit whose crowd-pleasing specialty is time travel. Can anyone deny that we are haunted?""), the basic plot is straightforward, even predictable. ![]() Though Winterson sets up the tale with a gorgeous, elusive promise (a ""sister universe, contemplative, concealed, waits in our future. ![]() Alchemy and astrology, their philosophical similarities to quantum physics and hyperspace and a love triangle turned menage-a-trois entwine in Winterson's acutely fascinating yet strained seventh novel (Art Objects, etc.). ![]()
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