Frankissstein: A Love Story

by Jeanette Winterson

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020**
**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**

'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.

As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his Mum again, is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.

Ranging from 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley pens her radical first novel, to a cryonics facility in present-day Arizona where the dead wait to return to life, Frankissstein shows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.

'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' The Times

'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times

• ISBN10: 1473563259
• ISBN13: 9781473563254
• Publish Date: 28 May 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Vintage Digital
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[clementine]

Ahh, man, I do love Jeanette Winterson, but this didn't quite work for me. She was doing a lot here and something about it didn't fully connect. I generally find Winterson's work to be moving in a way that I can't quite understand or explain - and I kept waiting to feel something deeply here and just... didn't. Maybe this is a case of my expectations being too high because of the calibre of her other work. I seem to have run into some issues this year with novels that are very rich in ideas and a little lighter on narrative and character development. This reminded me in a lot of ways of Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last - the exploration of sex robots, the satirical edge that felt cheap and unaccomplished. A disappointment for me!