Alasdair Gray
Poor Things: Soon to be a major film
Poor Things: Soon to be a major film
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Poor Things is a novel by Alasdair Gray that was awarded the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is about a scientist who creates the perfect companion, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation. The novel is a brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art and was described as "the greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott" by Anthony Burgess.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 24 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Winner of Four Academy Awards, Five BAFTAs, and Two Golden Globes
Starring Emma Stone, from the director of The Favorite
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
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.
Poor Things is a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book
London Review of Books
Visionary, ornate, and outrageous
The Independent
Witty and delightfully written
New York Times
A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.
Kirkus Reviews
The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Burgess
Those who, like me, are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not, ought to fall on Poor Things with delight, and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance
Philip Hensher, Spectator
Weight: 266g
Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526657886
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