{"product_id":"frankissstein-jeanette-winterson-9781784709952","title":"Frankissstein (Jeanette Winterson)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, \u003ci\u003eFrankissstein \u003c\/i\u003eshows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most gifted writers working today' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJeanette Winterson CBE\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not the Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/i\u003e. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 352 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807263039837,"sku":"K081824437","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8182443700001A.jpg?v=1788477616","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/frankissstein-jeanette-winterson-9781784709952","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}