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    Audiobook9 hours

    Poor Things

    Written by Alasdair Gray

    Narrated by Kathryn Drysdale and Russ Bain

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    About this audiobook

    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRRING 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 Baxter's 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 McCandless's 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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateOct 26, 2023
    ISBN9781004141333
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    Poor Things
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    Alasdair Gray

    ALASDAIR GRAY won the the Whitbread and Guardian Awards for Poor Things. He is also the author of The Book of Prefaces, the story-collection Ten Tales Tall and True, and the groundbreaking modern classic Lanark.

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    • 1/5
      Thanks god it's over, you couldn't pay me to listen to that again lol.
    • 5/5
      Amazing story. The author never stops to amaze us. Surprises till the very end. I hope everyone gets to know this story.
    • 5/5
      Such a Captivating read! Loved it to the bits. :)
    • 3/5
      It was quite entertaining, terribly disturbing, and had lots of ethical issues intertwined into the narrative.