Poor Things

Poor Things Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer

Alasdair Gray1994
Set in and around Glasgow and the Meditteranean in the early 1880s, this unusual novel describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25-year-old woman who has been created from human remains by one of them. Winner of the 1992 Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Illustrations.
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