A Monster's Notes Contributor(s): Sheck, Laurie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375711821 ISBN-13: 9780375711824 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Horror - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.55 lbs) 544 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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. |