{"product_id":"monster-s-notes-book-laurie-sheck-9780307271051","title":"A Monster's Notes","description":"A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity. --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow 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?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49559647617297,"sku":"GOR013279870","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52842651156753,"sku":"GOR002555480","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307271056.jpg?v=1750941686","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/monster-s-notes-book-laurie-sheck-9780307271051","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}