A Monster's Notes - 9780375711824
Un libro in lingua di Laurie Sheck edito da Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2012
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Monster's Notes
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Laurie Sheck
- Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Collana: Alfred a Knopf Inc (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 17 Gennaio '12
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 530
- ISBN-10: 0375711821
- EAN-13: 9780375711824