A Monster's Notes
Author: Sheck, Laurie
ISBN: 9780375711824
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Jan 2012
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback / softback
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?BR>BR>"A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity." -i>The Washington Post/i>br>br>b>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?/b>br> br> 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.
ISBN: 9780375711824
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 17 Jan 2012
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback / softback
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?BR>BR>"A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity." -i>The Washington Post/i>br>br>b>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?/b>br> br> 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.
