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Poor Things
Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer
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A send-up of Victorian notions in a novel that twists on the Frankenstein concept when a Scottish doctor brings the corpse of a young woman back to life. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of Britain's Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
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9781564783073,
Paperback,
Dalkey Archive Pr,
2002
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9780151730766,
Hardcover,
Harcourt,
1993
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9780156000680,
Paperback,
Harcourt,
1994
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Publisher Notes
The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean.
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"[This] is a political book. It is also witty and delightfully written...."
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