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POOR THINGS - ALASDAIR GRAY KARTONIERT (TB)

SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMMA STONE  FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE    Winner of
the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize    A life without freedom to choose is
not worth having.   Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is
realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella  who he brings back to life in a
Frankenstein -esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love
for his creation...  But what does Bella think?  This story of true love and scientific daring
whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through
aristocratic casinos  low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello  reaching an interrupted
climax in a Scottish church.  ________________________   'A magnificently brisk  funny  dirty 
brainy book' London Review of Books    'Visionary  ornate and outrageous' The Independent   
'Witty and delightfully written' New York Times     ' A brilliant marriage of technique 
intelligence  and art.' Kirkus Reviews    'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter
Scott' Anthony Burgess   Those who  like me  are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not 
ought to fall on Poor Things with delight  and not just because of the almost excessive beauty
of its appearance' Philip Hensher  Spectator

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