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    Poor Things
    Poor Things
    Poor Things
    Audiobook9 hours

    Poor Things

    Written by Alasdair Gray

    Narrated by Russ Bain and Kathryn Drysdale

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    About this audiobook

    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE.

    Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize

    A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

    Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation...

    But what does Bella think?

    This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
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    'A magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book' London Review of Books

    'Visionary, ornate and outrageous' The Independent

    'Witty and delightfully written' New York Times

    'A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.' Kirkus Reviews

    'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' Anthony Burgess
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateOct 26, 2023
    ISBN9781004141333
    Poor Things
    Author

    Alasdair Gray

    Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing story. The author never stops to amaze us. Surprises till the very end. I hope everyone gets to know this story.
    • 5/5
      Such a Captivating read! Loved it to the bits. :)
    • 1/5
      Thanks god it's over, you couldn't pay me to listen to that again lol.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      It was quite entertaining, terribly disturbing, and had lots of ethical issues intertwined into the narrative.

      1 person found this helpful