Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

223 pages • first pub 1997 (view editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ challenging reflective slow-paced
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Ideal for readers who relish intellectually provocative, slow-burn narratives that braid abstract ideas with intimate emotion and reward patient attention with a resonant, unified vision of love’s quantum entanglements.

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Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not the first writer to make a major character a physicist. Jonathan Lethem mined similar territory earlier this year in his delightful book, As She Clim...

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3.69
based on 744 reviews

Moods

reflective: 72%

challenging: 62%

emotional: 52%

dark: 47%

mysterious: 25%

adventurous: 14%

tense: 12%

sad: 10%

informative: 6%

funny: 4%

hopeful: 4%

inspiring: 2%

Pace

17% of readers chose fast
55% of readers chose medium
27% of readers chose slow
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medium
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Plot or character driven?

7% of readers chose Plot
21% of readers chose A mix
69% of readers chose Character
2% of readers chose N/A
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Strong character development?

28% of readers chose Yes
54% of readers chose Complicated
14% of readers chose No
2% of readers chose N/A
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Loveable characters?

4% of readers chose Yes
56% of readers chose Complicated
39% of readers chose No
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Complicated
No

Diverse cast of characters?

29% of readers chose Yes
16% of readers chose Complicated
51% of readers chose No
2% of readers chose N/A
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Complicated
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Flaws of characters a main focus?

84% of readers chose Yes
13% of readers chose Complicated
2% of readers chose No
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Complicated
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