GRAY, Alasdair.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poor Things. First edition, signed by the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper. Gray's postmodern novel, a "playful, experimental creative response to Frankenstein" (ODNB), won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2023, it was adapted into a highly-acclaimed film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone as Bella Baxter.Poor Things is presented as the work of Doctor Archibald McCandless, "edited" by Gray, with illustrations purposefully misattributed to the Scottish etcher and illustrator William Strang. The jacket flaps feature tongue-in-cheek alternative blurbs and fictitious reviews from Private Nose and The Times Literary Implement.

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