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Alasdair Gray: Poor Things (Paperback, 2002, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)

A fantasy novel, presented as a discovered a manuscript, set in the nineteenth century. Frankenstein-like …

Review of 'Poor Things' on 'Goodreads'

Such a delightful, original, hilarious, clever and empathic book. Heavy sigh. Just loved it. I heard that the movie is only McCandless's POV and omits Bella's corrections. Not sure if that is true as I have not seen the movie, but the Bella perspective is absolutely essential, grounds the narrative and gives the book depth. The last section of extended fictional footnotes gets too fragmented and I was not so engaged, but even so it cannot take away the little masterpiece of a work that this is.