A Monster's Notes

What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankensteins monster at all but had methim when she was a girl of eight sitting by her mothers grave and he came toher un... » 

What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankensteins monster at all but had methim when she was a girl of eight sitting by her mothers grave and he came toher unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed obsessed withthe strange being shed discovered at a time of need? What if he were stillalive in the twentyfirst century? This bold genredefying book brings us themonster in his own words. He recalls how he was made and how VictorFrankenstein abandoned him. He ponders the tragic tale of the Shelleys and theintertwining of his life with Marys whose fictionalized letters salt thenarrative along with those of her nineteenthcentury intimates in thisriveting mix of fact and poetic license. He takes notes on all aspects of humanstrivingfrom Gertrude Stein to robotics to the Northern explorers whoselonely quest mirrors his ownas he tries to understand the strange race thatmade yet shuns him and to find his own freedom of mind. A Monsters Notes isShecks most thrilling work to date a luminous meditation on creativity andtechnology on alienation and otherness on ugliness and beauty and on ourneed to be understood. «