Strange Attractors: Stories
Rebecca Goldstein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
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· 2 ratings · 288 pages · Published: 08 Apr 1993
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
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