Frankissstein

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“Frankissstein is very funny. There has always been a fine line between horror and high camp, and this is a boundary that Winterson gleefully exploits.”

“Highly inventive…Lyrical, gloriously raunchy, pulpy and absurd.”

“A hold-on-to-your hat modern-day horror story about very modern-day neuroses and issues.”

“Beguiling, disturbing, and full of wonders.”

“Magnificent…This vividly imagined and gorgeously constructed novel will have readers laughing out loud—and then pondering their personhood and mortality on the next page.”

“Winterson draws a direct line from Mary Shelley to a trans doctor bedeviled by his mad scientist lover, the march of progress, and the occasional sexbot in this funny, incisive triumph.”

“An inventive, intelligent, bawdy novel that’s a bit like a literary playground. It has everything: Mary Shelley, A.I., sex dolls, cryogenics labs and some of the funniest writing we’ve come across this year. And of course, it’s a love story.”

“Pulls a totemic story into the twenty-first century.”

“A book that seeks to shift our perspective on humanity and the purpose of being human in the most darkly entertaining way… gloriously well observed.”

“Ingeniously reimagines the Mary Shelley legend as a wild meditation on identity and the body.”

“Fizzes with ideas and originality…alive with new and contemporary ideas about whom we love and where humanity is headed.”

“A brilliant amalgamation of scholarship and comedy.”

“Perdita Weeks resoundingly enlivens the peripatetic nineteenth-century brood…And John Sackville embodies a new cast—but are they?—who initially converge at Tech-X-Po in Memphis…This repertoire is so admirably distinctive listeners may wonder if an uncredited third reader occasionally commandeered the recording…Winterson’s inventive latest gets memorably animated via two can’t-be-ignored, seasoned narrators.”

“Narrators John Sackville and Perdita Weeks expertly deliver the two time frames of this inventive novel…Weeks’s voice has a soft pitch and a longing tone, while Sackville offers an array of voices and accents.”

“Frankissstein is intellectually bracing and sexually explicit; a historical literary romp and a futuristic thriller.”

“Sparky, funny, and finely calibrated to ask weighty questions with the lightest of touches…beautifully written.”

“Complex and spellbinding…artfully structured, unexpectedly funny, and impressively dynamic.”

“[A] bold and humorous narrative…Highly recommended.”

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