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Product Identifiers
PublisherPegasus Books
ISBN-101639369694
ISBN-139781639369690
eBay Product ID (ePID)14074472274
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove, Sex, and Frankenstein : a Novel
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicClassics, Biographical, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorCaroline Lea
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsA deliciously dark reimagining of the birth of literature's greatest monster, Love, Sex & Frankenstein is at once a heartbreaking Gothic love story and a chilling study of rage, betrayal and the mysterious origins of the creative impulse. A triumph., A magnificent book - raw, rage-filled and wondrous. A crackling, passionate story about Mary Shelley and the monsters we suppress. I loved it., Love, Sex, and Frankenstein is a gothic dream of a novel, one so vivid that I felt as though I was actually there during those storied and claustrophobic days at Villa Diodati. Witnessing Caroline Lea's Mary Shelley write her masterpiece is both inspiring and cathartic. A timely tale of women's rage, agency, and creativity., An enthralling read. Beautifully written, this story of a woman's rage and her discovery of writing as an outlet is gripping., Lea creates a world that is so vividly realized, it is astonishing to read. All her characters are wonderfully nuanced, and you cannot help but fall in love with Mary, whose journey as an artist and as a woman is both absolutely heartbreaking and truly inspiring. This is a deeply moving, magical book from a consummate storyteller.
SynopsisAn evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a monster. Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley's betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby, and suspicious of her sister's intentions, Mary seeks a refuge. But Lord Byron's villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself. And so an idea begins to form in her mind . . . It spills out of her in thick, black ink. A thing given life by her imagination. Day and night, it possesses her. Her heart, her desires. But is she in control, or is it? In this hauntingly evocative feminist retelling, Caroline Lea delves into the female rage, creative madness and steamy scandal that bore the world's most famous work of gothic fiction.
