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Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
"I have love, but I cannot find love's meaning in this world of death. Would there be no babies, no bodies; only minds to contemplate beauty and truth. If we were not bound to our bodies we should not suffer so."
Slow down, breathe, and prepare to be transported by this book.
Like all of Jeanette Winterson's work, this novel reads like poetry. It weaves a few narrative threads together that took this reader awhile to fully immerse myself in, but I'm glad I kept with it. It's an engaging story of mortality, evolution, the limits of the human body. Set in the future and the past, we follow the stories of many different monsters and their makers - the genesis of Mary Shelley's lasting work and the future of the human race as we know it.
It's worth flagging this novel for some brief but graphic sexual violence. It is also at times hard to follow, but I believe that may be a flaw in the Kindle version in its unpublished stages. Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Press for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Slow down, breathe, and prepare to be transported by this book.
Like all of Jeanette Winterson's work, this novel reads like poetry. It weaves a few narrative threads together that took this reader awhile to fully immerse myself in, but I'm glad I kept with it. It's an engaging story of mortality, evolution, the limits of the human body. Set in the future and the past, we follow the stories of many different monsters and their makers - the genesis of Mary Shelley's lasting work and the future of the human race as we know it.
It's worth flagging this novel for some brief but graphic sexual violence. It is also at times hard to follow, but I believe that may be a flaw in the Kindle version in its unpublished stages. Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Press for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.