In Frankissstein: A Love Story best-selling British author Jeanette Winterson creates a contemporary Gothic retelling of Mary Shelley's famous novel Frankenstein. Winterson's novel has two narrative streams: one set in the 19th century following Mary Shelley as she writes and publishes Frankenstein and another set in the present day in which a young transgender doctor falls in love with a mad scientist who is a radical proponent of artificial intelligence. Winterson tackles themes such as the nature of love, the nature of consciousness, humans' relationships to our bodies, and technology and science gone too far.
Jeanette Winterson is one of the most admired and discussed of her generation of British novelists. Her first novel achieved remarkable success and, although her succeeding ones have often been more c...
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Jeanette Winterson is arguably one of the most talked-about writers of her generation. Her impact on both popular and literary culture in England is owing at least in part to the acclaim awarded to he...
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Jeanette Winterson