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Poetic twists on the paradoxes of time.
The quotidian becomes extraordinary and unsettling.
Time travel needn't involve machines or blue boxes (sorry, Apatt!): Lightman makes it leap off the page and into your mind, leaving you questioning the very root of reality.
Now that I am reading Borges, I assume Lightman was influenced by him (and maybe others), in particular, the short story, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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There are about 30 very short chapters (typically, three pages of well-spaced te ...more
The quotidian becomes extraordinary and unsettling.
Time travel needn't involve machines or blue boxes (sorry, Apatt!): Lightman makes it leap off the page and into your mind, leaving you questioning the very root of reality.
Now that I am reading Borges, I assume Lightman was influenced by him (and maybe others), in particular, the short story, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
FORMAT
There are about 30 very short chapters (typically, three pages of well-spaced te ...more
I realize it says fiction on the cover, but it doesn't feel like a novel to me. No matter, it was a brilliant read, weird and wonderful.
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