Poor Things
by:
Alasdair Gray (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747512462 (0747512469)
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Scotland
I was hesitant to read Poor Things because there is a lot going on in this novel. The book has strange formatting and images. It’s written to sound like a Victorian classic, but it’s also satirizing Victorian classics. It’s a bizarre feminist Frankenstein reimagining told by multiple unreliable narr...
BkC 154Rating: 3* of fiveThe Book Description: With its tantalizing reminders of Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll, this is an up-to-date nineteenth-century novel, informed by a thoroughly twentieth-century sensibility. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranea...
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