Reproduction : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION HALL (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Physical Description
209 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life"--
Contents
- Conception 2018
- Birth 2019
- Science fiction 2021.