by Jeanette Winterson · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784709952
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«Frankissstein: A Love Story» is the science fiction and romance novel by Jeanette Winterson, published by Penguin in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Starting from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the novel alternates 1816 with a present of artificial intelligence. Ry, a transgender doctor, falls in love with Victor Stein, a professor leading the debate on AI; Ron Lord creates sex dolls and a cryogenics centre in Arizona preserves bodies awaiting a return to life.
Published in 2020. It was on the longlist for the Booker Prize 2019.
For readers of science fiction and LGBTQ+ narrative interested in identity and artificial intelligence.
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
