'One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers. This whole collection is characteristic for its close relationship with Winterson’s novels. is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination.'-Elle Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Joves wife, Stella, a poet. 'Dazzling for intelligence and inventiveness. Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge.

'Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder.A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story.'-Times Literary Supplement Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England's most flamboyantly gifted young writer. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by.

Chris Kridler in the Baltimore Sun was less positive, noting that while it aimed for the gut it dazzled the intellect but went no further.The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. Nothing she has written since her first book, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, in 1985, has.

Bruce Bawer in the New York Times also found it a hard read despite its short length but praised it for Winterson's 'fresh, vivid way of putting things'. It has become almost routine, for her work to be labelled self-indulgent, pretentious and undisciplined. Critical reaction Īudrey Bilver in the LA Times found it challenging but worth the effort, saying like a 'kind of walking meditation, the book asks us to think our way toward insights that only our guts can know and to feel our way toward mysteries that lie beyond our analytical minds'. The title relates to the GUTs ( grand unified theories) of quantum physics and cosmology, and the symmetries they involve. The book deals with a love triangle between Alice (a young British physicist), Jove (who is a male physicist at Princeton), and Jove's wife Stella Alice has relationships with both of them. When the affair with Jove goes south, Alice and Stella begin an affair.

She begins an affair with Jove a man already married to a woman named Stella. Gut Symmetries tells the story of a love triangle. Gut Symmetries is a 1997 novel by the British literary writer Jeanette Winterson, exploring themes of human relationships and physics. Almost like Winterson is trying to imagine herself back into a narrative but can’t quite get there.

Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson