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Reproduction - Softcover

Hall, Louisa

 
9781398522466: Reproduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1398522465 ISBN 13: 9781398522466
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2024

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‘Compelling, elegant and bitingly smart.’ Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life

A Frankenstein for the twenty-first century by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Trinity and Speak

A woman begins work on a novel about Mary Shelley while pregnant for the first time. Recently married, she has just moved from New York to Montana.

As the woman writes, fragments of Shelley’s story begin to detach themselves from the page. Moving through her reproductive years, Shelley endured a catalogue of losses painful beyond comprehension. Still, she wrote, conceiving Frankenstein in 1816.

The woman’s experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage and labour are traumatic and disorienting, especially in the context of political upheaval, climate crisis, and an ongoing pandemic. Finally, she gives birth to a daughter and together they emerge into another world.

Then a friend from the past reappears. Anna is a biochemist who has been struggling to become a parent, a scientist who sees everything as an experiment. How far will she go in her desire to bring a baby into being?
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Devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Louisa Hall is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and the author of the critically acclaimed novels Reproduction, Trinity, Speak. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals, and she is the recipient of grants from Yaddo, Macdowell, and The T.S. Eliot Foundation. She lives in Iowa City with her family.

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A woman attempts to write a novel about Mary Shelley. and is interrupted by several pregnancies, eventually coming to fixate on a friend who is also attempting to conceive a child.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1398522465
ISBN 13 
9781398522466
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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