Gray, Alasdair
Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer / Alasdair Gray - London : Bloomsbury Publishing , 2023 - 317 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
Adapted to the cinema in 2023 by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone
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.
Adultos/as
9781526657886
ciencia ficción
aventuras
victoriana
empoderamento
gótica
sátira
desexo
Glasgow
821.111(411)
Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer / Alasdair Gray - London : Bloomsbury Publishing , 2023 - 317 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
Adapted to the cinema in 2023 by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone
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.
Adultos/as
9781526657886
ciencia ficción
aventuras
victoriana
empoderamento
gótica
sátira
desexo
Glasgow
821.111(411)