{"product_id":"a-monsters-notes-9780375711824","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375711824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Laurie Sheck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45331904266421,"sku":"9780375711824","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4b616cb3-6200-4ccb-91a4-74015cf32119.jpg?v=1745938548","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-monsters-notes-9780375711824","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}