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I Rebecca Goldstein receives rave reviews for The Mind-Body Problem '1\n absorbing and entertaining novel, penetrating and poignant." -Sunday New York Times '1\ terrific novel ... The first 50 pages or so are so clever and funny that I had to put the book down and go to the fridge to cool off. 'I'm often asked what it's like to be married to a genius' is the first line, and the novel proceeds to explore the answer to that ques- tion." -New York Times Book Review "Goldstein is intelligent and perceptive, bawdy and witty-an ar ticulate writer of great talent. Will keep you turning pages to find out how it all turns out." -Los Angeles Times Book Review '1\ confectionery of delight, laced with equal parts of wit, humor, and philosophical argument. Goldstein succeeds brilliantly in smuggling into her novel short courses on everything from the his tory of mathematics to the trouble with Talmudic logic." -MS. magazine '1\ remarkably good novel, full of good writing, wry observations and shrewd characterizations." -Minnesota Daily "Perhaps the best American Jewish novel to be published in years ... Vibrant humor and sophistication give The Mind-Body Problem a unique dimension," -Hadassah Magazine "One of the most intelligent and funny pieces of fiction to surface this year. Goldstein's ability to translate complex philosophical or mathematical problems to such basics as friendship and sexual de sire leaves the reader giddy with inspiration ... . One of the most original laugh riots to successfully disguise itself as literature." -Kansas City Star "Brilliantly humorous, slyly witty-shades of Fran Leibowitz." -South Bend Tribune '1\n especially fine book that blends intelligence and feeling, intel- lect and sexuality." -New Jersey Monthly '1\ funny, thought-provoking novel ... fictional characters so intel ligent you learn from them and so believable you argue with them." -The Charlotte Observer "A stimulating and provocative novel ... deserves close and con templative reading for the utmost enjoyment." -The Chattanooga Times '1\ considerable performance: witty, compassionate, and full of fas- cinating divagations." -The London Observer "Strong writing, a story of an original group of misfits collected to entertain in a sophisticated way." -The Indianapolis Star '1\s wise as it is funny ... deserves an honored place amid 'The Groves of Academe' (McCarthy), 'The War Between the Tates' (Lurie), and 'The Professor of Desire' (Roth), each of which has re vealed the pain behind the ivy of our most sacrosanct preserves." -The San Diego Union CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM Rebecca Goldstein attended Barnard College and Princeton Uni versity, where she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. She returned to Barnar9, where she taught for ten years. She is the author of The Dark Sister (Penguin) and The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind. Her latest work of fiction, Strange Attractors, is available from Viking. REBECCA GOLDSTEIN We MIND-BODY Problem: c.fi Novel ~~~ ~~~ (§) PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Croup Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the United States of America by Random House, Inc., 1983 Published in Penguin Books 1993 3579108642 Copyright ©Rebecca Goldstein, 1983 All rights reserved Although this novel is set in Princeton, New Jersey, the characters ap pearing in it are fictional, composites drawn from several individuals and from imagination. No reference to any living person is intended or should be inferred. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to reprint an excerpt from "The Poet of Ignorance," by Anne Sexton from The Awful Rowing Towards God, copyright© 1975 by Loring Conant, Jr., Executor of the Estate of Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS liAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER AS FOLLOWS: Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- The mind-body problem. I. Title. PS3557.0398M56 1983 813 '.54 83-3268 ISBN 0-394-52474-8 (he.) ISBN 0 14 01.7245 9 (pbk.) Printed in the United States of America Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. In memory of my father BEZALEL NEWBERGER
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