Love & other monsters : a novel / Emily Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Emily, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Fiction.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822--Fiction.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Fiction.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879--Fiction.

Clairmont, Claire.

Switzerland--19th century--Fiction.

Switzerland.

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xxi, 440 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Love and other monsters

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Godine, 2026.

Summary:

"1816, The Year Without Summer: a group of famous young writers gathers at Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland--brilliant Mary Shelley, her fiery fiancé Percy Shelley, the famously promiscuous Lord Byron, and John Polidori, Byron's sexually tormented physician. At the center is Claire Clairmont, Mary's impressionable, clever, and dangerously loyal stepsister. Those stormy summer months of desire, betrayal, and creative passion give the world Frankenstein, the modern vampire, and the mythic image of Romantic literary giants. In this intense story of love, lust, art, and betrayal, Claire finds her voice, solving the mystery of why she was all but erased from history. Claire--herself a writer--is desperate to free herself from the uncomfortable role she plays in her sister's marriage in London. Fueled by Jane Austen's romantic novels, she begins an affair with Lord Byron, convincing Mary and Shelley to follow him to Switzerland. With paparazzi lurking, Claire's complex connection with each member of the group intensifies. She documents everyone's secrets--including her own--in her journal, and when climate disaster causes food shortages, she learns to forage, determined to prove her worth in a world built by and created for men. The real Claire Clairmont poured her love, life and razor-sharp wit into her journals, yet the one from 1816 is curiously missing, and each member of the group had a reason to take it. With searing relevance to our here and now--a time of celebrity worship, climate disaster, political struggle, and complicated femininity--Love & Other Monsters is the untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters: both those on the page and those who walk among us" -- from dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes discussion questions.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781567928556

1567928552

OCLC:

1516170568