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Frankissstein: A Novel

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About Frankissstein: A Novel

Product Description Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” ( Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself. Review Praise for Frankissstein Longlisted for The 2019 Booker Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Books of Fiction in 2019 One of Hudson Bookseller's Best Fiction Books of 2019 Library Journal's Best of 2019 Fiction Books One of BookMarks' Best Reviewed SciFi and Fantasy Books of 2019 "Winterson has stitched together that rarest of beasts: a novel that is both deeply thought-provoking and provocative yet also unabashedly entertaining (I laughed out loud more times than I could count). “Frankissstein,” like its protagonist Ry, is a hybrid: a novel that defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms.” - Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review “This novel is talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy. You begin to linger on those three s’s when you speak the title aloud.” - Dwight Garner, New York Times “A brainy, batty story ― an unholy amalgamation of scholarship and comedy. [Winterson] manages to pay homage to Shelley’s insight and passion while demonstrating her own extraordinary creativity... his is no work of conventional literary history. It’s just a jump to the left... The dialogue is slick and funny, often delightfully obscene, but beneath all the kookiness, Winterson is satirizing sexual politics and exploring complicated issues of human desire... a bag of provocative tricks and treats. With diabolical ingenuity, [Winterson’s] found a way to inject fresh questions about humanity’s future into the old veins of Frankenstein.” - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Spellbinding...artfully structured, unexpectedly funny, and impressively dynamic." ―Elena Sheppard, Los Angeles Review of Books ““Frankissstein” is intellectually bracing and sexually explicit; a historical literary romp and a futuristic thriller. It, like its characters, rejects the binary.” -Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times “[A] dazzlingly intelligent meditation on the responsibilities of creation, the possibilities of artificial intelligence and the implications of both transsexuality and transhumanism… Winterson’s great gift as a writer… is the ability to inject pure thought with such freewheeling enthusiasm and energy that ideas take on their own kind of joyous life. Frankissstein abounds with invention… Deeply evocative historical realism balanced by hilarious, almost bawdy set pieces… A work of both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skillfully structured.”―Guardian “Gleefully Gothic… Dazzling… Enjoyably audacious.”―Independent “Sparky, funny an