EAN: 9780063283626

REPRODUCTION - LOUISA HALL GEBUNDEN

A lucid  genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy  childbirth  and
motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley 
author of Frankenstein  a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of
human reproduction. Soon  however  the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and
childbirth  as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to
pandemic  force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary
Frankenstein  based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life. In
telling a story that ranges from pregnancy to miscarriage to traumatic birth  from motherhood
to the frontiers of reproductive science  Louisa Hall draws powerfully from her own experiences
as well as the stories of two other women: Mary Shelley and Anna  a scientist and would-be
parent who is contemplating the possibilities  and morality  of genetic modification. Both
devastating and joyful  elegant and exacting  Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the
hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life  and a profoundly feminist exploration of
motherhood  female friendship  and artistic ambition.

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