Poor Things

1992 novel by Alasdair Gray

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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year. A postmodern retelling of the 1818 gothic horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, the narrative follows the life of Bella Baxter, a surgically fabricated woman created in late Victorian Glasgow.

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