02237cam a2200361 i 4500 1130543265 TxAuBib 20240124120000.0 230920s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023037991 9798885796033 (OCoLC)1398573273 TxAuBib rda Blake, Olivie, author. Alone with you in the ether : a love story / Olivie Blake. Large print edition. [Farmington Hills] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©0. 467 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision. To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse. For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability--until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?"-- Provided by publisher. 20240124. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Space and time Fiction. Strangers Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Love Fiction. Romance fiction. lcgft Fantasy fiction. lcgft TXKPL