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Frankissstein

A Novel
Pages
366
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1816, Mary Shelley writes her famous story about creating life. In present-day Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor, Ry, falls in love with Victor Stein, a professor working on artificial intelligence. The novel switches between these two stories, exploring modern anxieties about technology, gender, and the future of humanity. It's a smart, strange love story that re-examines what it means to be human when we have the power to create new beings.

About the author

J
Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society o...

Characters

RyProtagonist
Victor SteinProtagonist
Mary ShelleyProtagonist
Ron LordSupporting
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