Frankissstein: A Love Story Audiobook

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

• “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)

• “Highly inventive…Lyrical, gloriously raunchy, pulpy and absurd.”

  — New Scientist

• “A hold-on-to-your hat modern-day horror story about very modern-day neuroses and issues.”

  — BBC News

• “Complex and spellbinding…artfully structured, unexpectedly funny, and impressively dynamic.”

  — Los Angeles Review of Books

• “Beguiling, disturbing, and full of wonders.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “[A] bold and humorous narrative…Highly recommended.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Magnificent…This vividly imagined and gorgeously constructed novel will have readers laughing out loud—and then pondering their personhood and mortality on the next page.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)

• “An inventive, intelligent, bawdy novel that’s a bit like a literary playground. It has everything: Mary Shelley, A.I., sex dolls, cryogenics labs and some of the funniest writing we’ve come across this year. And of course, it’s a love story.”

  — BookPage

• “Winterson draws a direct line from Mary Shelley to a trans doctor bedeviled by his mad scientist lover, the march of progress, and the occasional sexbot in this funny, incisive triumph.”

  — Shelf Awareness