EAN: 9781526657886

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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