Jeanette Winterson

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.’ Inspired by Mary Shelley’s gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead... but waiting to return to life. With a bold contemporary take on the same dilemmas that concerned Shelley, Winterson explores what it means to be human in a funny and furious love story about life itself. ‘One of the most gifted writers working today’ New York Times

A Love Story

Frankissstein

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And yet it is the language of our thoughts that tortures us more than any excess or deprivation of nature.

If time uses us as channels for the past - yes, that must be so, he said, as some people can speak to the dead.

Byron is an atheist and does not believe in life after death. We are haunted by ourselves, he says, and that is enough for any man.

The loss was inside of me as I had been inside of her. I lost something of myself.

Yet, I said to Shelley, you of all men believe in the soul. I do, he said; I believe it is each man's task to awaken his own soul. His soul is that part of him not subject to death and decay; that part of him made alive to truth and beauty. If he has no soul he is a brute. 

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