Isbn: 9780307271051 - a monster's notes (8 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being whom she had discovered at a time of need? What if he were still alive in the twenty-first century? [] This bold, genre-defying book brings us the 'monster' in his own words. He recalls how he was 'made' and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him. He ponders the tragic tale of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his life with that of Mary (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates) in this riveting mix of fact and poetic license. He takes notes on all aspects of human striving--from the music of John Cage 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. [] In the course of the monster's musings, we also see Mary Shelley's life from her childhood through her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, her writing of Frankenstein, the births and deaths of her children, Shelley's famous drowning, her widowhood, her subsequent travels and life's work, and finally her death from a brain tumor at age fifty-four. The monster's fierce bond with Mary and the tale of how he ended up in her fiction is a haunted, intense love story, a story of two beings who can never forget each other. [] A MONSTER'S NOTES is Sheck's most thrilling work to date, a luminous meditation on creativity and technology, on alienation and otherness, on ugliness and beauty, and on our need to be understood." [jacket copy] "This brilliant fiction gathers both seamless coherence and immense power as its elements draw together . . . Utterly astonishing and not to be missed."--Kirkus. "A MONSTER'S NOTES is a brave, brilliant hybrid of a book: it has the intensity of a long poem, the intellectual luster of a work of philosophy, the compelling narrative of the finest fiction. It is completely original."--Mary Gordon. "Rather as Michael Cunningham used 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 'The Hours,' the poet Laurie Sheck places Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' at the center of a varied and obsessively researched narrative canvas, encompassing such matters as early explorations of the Arctic Circle and the untimely deaths of Shelley's mother, half sister, small children, and husband. The most successful set piece is an uncanny fable that portrays Frankenstein's monster as an enigmatic but compassionate spirit who briefly appears to Shelley in her girlhood, takes umbrage at the violence of her novel, and survives into the present to observe the work's long life in popular culture. Not all the digressions are equally gripping, but Sheck provides a provocative metaphor for spiritual and technological crisis: in the last pages, a being without identity cowers in a squalid room, hunting the Internet for a trace of its creator."--The New Yorker. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a distinctive & intact NF jacket covered in archival mylar. Quite presentable.…

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