Jonathan Lethem — As She Climbed Across the TableAnna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing … nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice’s spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of Gun, with Occasional Music.Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste—tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it disdains a bow tie, an ice ax, and a scrambled duck egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates as an irresistible personality.To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws—because it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, As She Climbed Across the Table is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written.时光网讯 据报道，加拿大鬼才导演大卫·柯南伯格将把美国先锋流行作家乔纳森·勒瑟姆（Jonathan Lethem）的科幻爱情小说《她爬过桌面》(As She Climbed Across the Table)搬上大银幕。眼下他正在拍摄《危险方法》，还有传闻中的几部新片也在运作，看来今年柯南伯格今明年都有得忙了。 美国作家乔纳森·勒瑟姆于1997年推出自己的第三部小说《她爬过桌面》(As She Climbed Across the Table)，原著讲述Phillip Engstrand教授爱上了粒子物理学家Alice Coombs，不可思议的是，Alice却与自己所研究的黑洞“The Lack”坠入爱河，可怜的Phillip要和一个虚无的事物竞争感情。故事的前提与经典影片《美丽心灵的永恒阳光》非常相似，据报道目前编剧Steve Zaillian正在准备剧本。这是一个十分复杂、抽象的爱情故事，改编成电影的难度非常高，不过柯南伯格之前已经有一连串将小说成功改编成电影的记录（《孽扣》、《裸体午餐》、《欲望号快车》），所以这本著作搬上大银幕的结果十分值得期待。 柯南伯格自从1999年的《感官游戏》之后，有十年的时间没有再染指科幻片，眼下他正在拍电影《危险方法》。去年曾传出消息他要亲自翻拍自己1986年的科幻恐怖经典《苍蝇》，还要把美国作家唐·德里罗（Don DeLillo）的小说《国际大都市》（Cosmopolis）拍成电影《大都市》（柯林·法瑞尔、玛丽昂·歌迪亚主演），近期还有消息他将拍摄《东方的承诺》续集，主演维果·莫特森也会回归。从日程表来看，尽管继2007年《东方的承诺》之后有三年的时间并无新片推出，但未来的两年柯南伯格无疑将会十分繁忙。试听扫码下载英语电子书/音频
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