VYNELA (หนังสือภาษาอังกฤษ) POOR THINGS — ALASDAIR GRAY

SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMMA STONE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE

Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize

A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Godwin Baxters scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandlesss jealous love for his creation...

But what does Bella think?

This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
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A magnificently brisk funny dirty brainy book London Review of Books

Visionary ornate and outrageous The Independent

Witty and delightfully written New York Times

A brilliant marriage of technique intelligence and art. Kirkus Reviews

The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott Anthony Burgess

Those who like me are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not ought to fall on Poor Things with delight and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance Philip Hensher Spectator