ISBN: 9780375711824 - a monster's notes (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "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.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Clean, unmarked copy with solid, crease-free spine. BP/Fiction.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 544 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.