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Frankissstein Audiobook

A Love Story

by Jeanette Winterson
language: english
Publisher: Random House, May of 2019 ‧
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** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **Brought to you by Penguin.From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desireIn 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.But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. 'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.

Frankissstein

A Love Story

by Jeanette Winterson

Property Description
ISBN: 9781473567993
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: May of 2019
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
File Size B
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Categories: Audiobooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Europe
EAN: 9781473567993

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson nasceu em Manchester, em 1959. Considerada uma das vozes mais originais da literatura inglesa a surgir nos anos 80, ganhou imediata notoriedade com o seu primeiro livro, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (As Laranjas Não São o Único Fruto, Bico de Pena, 2005) romance semibiográfico inspirado na sua educação profundamente religiosa.
Ao longo da sua carreira foi distinguida com inúmeros prémios, de entre os quais se destacam o Whitbread Prize para Primeiro Romance, o E. M. Forster Award ou o BAFTA, tendo também sido agraciada com a Ordem do Império Britânico, e tornada fellow da Royal Society of Literature.
Escreve para várias publicações, mantendo uma coluna semanal no Guardian, e é professora de Escrita Criativa na Universidade de Manchester.

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