{"product_id":"9781784709952","title":"Frankissstein : A Love Story","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Winterson, Jeanette\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 16 January 2020 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 196 x 23 | 248g\u003cp\u003e***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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' The Times 'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winterson, Jeanette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465798357176,"sku":"9781784709952","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784709952.jpg?v=1734714282","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784709952","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}