{"product_id":"frankisssteinbooks","title":"Frankissstein","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes her most anticipated book since \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince her astonishing debut at twenty-five with \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not the Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as \"one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e). Her new novel, \u003ci\u003eFrankissstein\u003c\/i\u003e, is an audacious love story that weaves disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, 2019, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mum, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead...but waiting to return to life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, \u003ci\u003eFrankissstein\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story about life itself.","brand":"Winterson, Jeanette","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47481647399136,"sku":"","price":19.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/fankissstein_082419.jpg?v=1749574770","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/frankisssteinbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}