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A Monster's Notes

A Monster's Notes

Sheck, Laurie

Paperback

HorrorHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0375711821
ISBN13: 9780375711824
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 17 2012
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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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