{"product_id":"a-monsters-notes-0375711821","title":"A Monster's Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0375711821\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sheck, Laurie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity. -The Washington PostNow 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?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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51819524718880,"sku":"NEW0375711821","price":20.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61c0hUrgI9L.jpg?v=1781133688","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-monsters-notes-0375711821","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}