Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein for Teens - Couverture rigide

Hemphill, Stephanie

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ISBN 10 : 0061853313 ISBN 13 : 9780061853319

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2013

Synopsis

From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein.

An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.

This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.

How did a teenage girl navigate tragedy, scandal, and a world-changing love to write a masterpiece that still haunts the world?

• Novel in Verse: Experience Mary Shelley’s tumultuous life through a lyrical, first-person narrative that captures every moment of passion, creativity, and heartbreak.
• Biographical Fiction: Step into the world of literary giants like Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, reimagined through the eyes of the young woman who walked among them.
• The Story Behind Frankenstein: Discover the legendary ghost story contest in a rain-swept Geneva villa that sparked the creation of one of the most famous gothic novels of all time.
• Love and Loss: Follow an all-consuming, scandalous love affair that led to both breathtaking genius and devastating personal tragedy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephanie Hemphill is the award-winning author of Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein; Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Sisters of Glass; and Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

An all-consuming love affair.

A family torn apart by scandal.

A young author on the brink of greatness.

Hideous Love is the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, who as a teen girl fled her restrictive home only to find herself in the shadow of a brilliant but moody boyfriend, famed poet Percy Shelley. It is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature: a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.

Mary wrote Frankenstein at the age of nineteen, but inspiration for the monster came from her life—the atmospheric European settings she visited, the dramas swirling around her, and the stimulating philosophical discussions with the greatest minds of the period, like her close friend Lord Byron.

This luminous verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061853313
• ISBN 13: 9780061853319
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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