Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson
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Frankissstein
A Love Story

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Narrator: John Sackville, Perdita Weeks

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2019

Synopsis

Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.Lake 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, 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 mom again, 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.What 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, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, CBE, was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at twenty-five. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. Twenty-seven years later she revisited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written ten novels for adults, as well as children’s books, nonfiction, and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

About John Sackville

John Sackville is an English actor and voice artist. He studied at St. Andrews University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has since acted on stage and on camera and has narrated a number of audiobooks, computer games, documentaries, and commercials.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on July 25, 2019

Entertaining, but a characterization of a trans person that swings between mildly to wildly offensive - and that's setting aside that the only person of colour in the entire book is a two-dimensional racist stereotype. That Winterson is promoting this book about a trans protagonist by arguing agains......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on January 10, 2020

DNF @ page 209 Nothing against the book at all, I’m just not the right audience for it. Also I’m unwell at the moment and my tolerance level is much lower than it would usually be. A couple of quotes I liked. “The body can be understood as a life support for the brain.” “Sanity is the thread through......more

Goodreads review by Justin on June 06, 2020

Imaginative fiction pulling from a variety of sources. Notably Mary Shelley, the person, Frankenstein, the book, concept, and character, and a hodgepodge of hot topics, such as technology, transgender issues, and Brexit. Think queer theory and postmodernism applied to Frankenstein. Then apply Franke......more

Quotes

“Ingeniously reimagines the Mary Shelley legend as a wild meditation on identity and the body.” Entertainment Weekly

“Fizzes with ideas and originality…alive with new and contemporary ideas about whom we love and where humanity is headed.” New York Times

“A brilliant amalgamation of scholarship and comedy.” Washington Post

“Pulls a totemic story into the twenty-first century.” Esquire

“Perdita Weeks resoundingly enlivens the peripatetic nineteenth-century brood…And John Sackville embodies a new cast—but are they?—who initially converge at Tech-X-Po in Memphis…This repertoire is so admirably distinctive listeners may wonder if an uncredited third reader occasionally commandeered the recording…Winterson’s inventive latest gets memorably animated via two can’t-be-ignored, seasoned narrators.” Library Journal (audio review)

“Narrators John Sackville and Perdita Weeks expertly deliver the two time frames of this inventive novel…Weeks’s voice has a soft pitch and a longing tone, while Sackville offers an array of voices and accents.” AudioFile

“Frankissstein is intellectually bracing and sexually explicit; a historical literary romp and a futuristic thriller.” Los Angeles Times

“Frankissstein is very funny. There has always been a fine line between horror and high camp, and this is a boundary that Winterson gleefully exploits.” The Times (London)

“A book that seeks to shift our perspective on humanity and the purpose of being human in the most darkly entertaining way… gloriously well observed.” The Observer (London)

“Sparky, funny, and finely calibrated to ask weighty questions with the lightest of touches…beautifully written.” Sunday Express (London)

Awards

  • Booker Prize
  • Bookpage Most Anticipated Book
  • Entertainment Weekly Pick
  • Vulture.com Pick
  • Esquire Pick
  • New York Times Pick
  • Tor.com Reviewers' Choice
  • Wired Magazine Pick
  • Literary Hub Pick
  • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
  • Publishers Weekly Best Book
  • Lambda Literary
  • Library Journal Best Book
  • Locus Recommendation
  • CBC Pick
  • Comedy Women in Print Prize
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