Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray · first published 1992

Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year. A postmodern retelling of the 1818 gothic horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, the narrative follows the life of Bella Baxter, a surgically fabricated woman created in late Victorian Glasgow. Bella’s navigation of late 19th century society is the lens through which Gray delivers social commentary on patriarchal institutions, social equality, socioeconomic matters and sexual politics.

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Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.5 / 5 (4 on Open Library)

Year page:

1992