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Mar 1, 1993 · by Alasdair Gray ‧RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1993. bookshelf. shop now. amazon. The recent winner of Whitbread Novel Award for 1992, as well as the Guardian Fiction Prize: a witty sendup of the Victorian pantheon as Scottish novelist Gray (Sporting Leather, 1991, etc.) masterfully demolishes those scientific, cultural, and social shibboleths that ...
Jan 1, 2002 · 4.2 1,611 ratings. See all formats and editions. One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant.
- Alasdair Gray
Oct 10, 2023 · In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor.
- Alasdair Gray
Jan 2, 2024 · Deep Vellum Publishing, Jan 2, 2024 - Fiction - 320 pages. One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional...
Poor Things: A Novel. Alasdair Gray. Oct 2023· Sold by HarperCollins. 4.2star. 9 reviews. Ebook. 336. Pages. family_home. Eligible. info. $11.99 Ebook.
Jan 17, 2002 · Poor Things is amusing and admirably angry, compassionate, and ironic as it looks in 1992 at the early days—modern as well Victorian—of a better nation.” (Barbara Hardy - Times Literary Supplement) “Bella Baxter surely merits a place among the holy innocents of literature—Lemuel Gulliver, Don Quixote, Huck Finn, Prince Kropotkin and ...
- Alasdair Gray
Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer (1992) is a novel written by Scottish author Alasdair Gray. The novel explores issues of Scottish national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries, Victorian gender roles, and scientific progress. Poor Things is a postmodernist pastiche of ...
