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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 9781564783073, Paperback, Dalkey Archive Pr, 2002

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9780151730766 9780151730766, Hardcover, Harcourt, 1993

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9780156000680 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.

Media Reviews

"[This] is a political book. It is also witty and delightfully written...."

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