Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean of the early 1880s, this novel describes the triangle of affection between two doctors and a clever woman who has been created - not born - at the age of 25. This book won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and "The Guardian" Fiction Prize.
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Posted by Edward the Bonobo (1 year ago ) Pygmalion crossed with Frankenstein in Victorian Glasgow. It's a wonderful piece of literary invention, with its novel within a diary within a piece of historical research within a novel structure. I could mention 'meta-narrative', but shan't.
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