Strange Bodies

A Novel

Hardcover, 304 pages

Published Feb. 4, 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-27065-0
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OCLC Number:
846545379

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I quite enjoyed this tale, which felt very much in the same vein as many of the seminal 19th century works of speculative fiction -- Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde. It uses the fantastic elements (which are, admittedly, fairly sketchy and hand-wavey) to explore the human experience and questions of identity and mortality.

If you like punchy, action-heavy narratives, you should certainly steer clear! But if a long, ruminative account of a life transformed in interesting ways, written with lovely, literary prose sounds appealing, it would be hard to go wrong here.

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