A Monster's Notes
Sheck, Laurie
| Autor: | Sheck, Laurie |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 17.01.2012 |
| EAN: | 9780375711824 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 548 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Produktinformationen "A Monster's Notes"
"A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity." -The Washington Post Now in paperback, the bold, genre-defying book that asked: What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster at all but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden? In a riveting mix of fact and poetic license, Laurie Sheck gives us the "monster" in his own words: recalling how he was "made" and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him; pondering the tragic tale of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his life with Mary's (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates); taking notes on all aspects of human striving--from Gertrude Stein to robotics to the Northern explorers whose lonely quest mirrors his own--as he tries to understand the strange race that made yet shuns him, and to find his own freedom of mind.
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