Despite its tantalizing reminders of Mary Shelley, Wilke Collins, Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll, this novel is truly unique. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880s, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25-year-old woman who has been created from human remains by one of them.
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Despite its tantalizing reminders of Mary Shelley, Wilke Collins, Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll, this novel is truly unique. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880s, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25-year-old woman who has been created from human remains by one of them.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 317 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First US edition as stated, first printing with full letter line with an "A". A fine clean tight unmarked copy in full blue cloth elaborately decorated in silver to covers and spine. Original dust jacket is price clipped but has no chips nor tears, light fading to spine. Illustrated throughout. This title won both the Whitebread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize and is the source for the highly acclaimed award winning film of the same name. Now rare, especially so in this condition.
