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A Monster's Notes

By Laurie Sheck

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A Monster's Notes

By Laurie Sheck

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"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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
548
Release Date:
2012-01-17
Publication Date:
2012-01-17
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375711821
ISBN13:
9780375711824
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
826 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
29 cm
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