EPISODE · May 28, 2019 · 7H 11M
Audiobook: Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/357017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frankissstein: A Love Story Author: Jeanette Winterson Narrator: Harrison Knights, Perdita Weeks, John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** Brought to you by Penguin. From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.' What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/357017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frankissstein: A Love Story Author: Jeanette Winterson Narrator: Harrison Knights, Perdita Weeks, John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** Brought to you by Penguin. From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.' What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
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