A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck

A Monster's Notes by Laurie Sheck

A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity. --The Washington Post

Now in paperback, the bold, genre-defying book that asked: What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein's monster at all but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he came to her unbidden?

In a riveting mix of fact and poetic license, Laurie Sheck gives us the monster in his own words: recalling how he was made and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him; pondering the tragic tale of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his life with Mary's (whose fictionalized letters salt the narrative, along with those of her nineteenth-century intimates); taking notes on all aspects of human striving--from Gertrude Stein to robotics to the Northern explorers whose lonely quest mirrors his own--as he tries to understand the strange race that made yet shuns him, and to find his own freedom of mind.

Laurie Sheck has published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Willow Grove, was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Her writing has been published in a variety of publications and magazines, including The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, and The Boston Review. Sheck has been a member of the creative writing faculty at Princeton University and now teaches in the M.F.A. program. Sheck has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, among others. at the New School for Social Research. She currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780307271051
ISBN 10	0307271056
Title	A Monster's Notes
Author	Laurie Sheck
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-06-23
Number of pages	530
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.