{"product_id":"monsters-notes-9780375711824","title":"Monsters Notes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, the bold, genre-defying book that asked: What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein''s monster at all but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother''s grave, and he came to her unbidden?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In a riveting mix of fact and poetic license, Laurie Sheck gives us the monster in his own words: recalling how he was made and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him; pondering the tragic tale of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his life with Mary''s (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates); taking notes on all aspects of human striving--from Gertrude Stein to robotics to the Northern explorers whose lonely quest mirrors his own--as he tries to understand the strange race that made yet shuns him, and to find h","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525058568535,"sku":"9780375711824","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780375711824.jpg?v=1731859073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/monsters-notes-9780375711824","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}