![]() I don’t necessarily want you feeling like that.įrom the start, the leading man in my mental movie was Ralph Fiennes as he appeared in the 1992 BBC Films version of Wuthering Heights. When I finished the writing, I felt as haggard as a salmon that had swum up the Columbia. If you cry at the end, know that I was sobbing into my Kleenex, too. I gasped when the action took a twist I worried when my people got in a jam. As I pounded the keyboard, I was cheering with the good guys and booing the bad. I would love for you to experience the same armrest-clutching thrill while reading the book as I had in writing it. ![]() ![]() Poe, rolls through your mind like a movie as you read it-thank you. Here Cullen dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Mrs. She is also the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt’s Daughter, which was a 2007 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and an ALA Best Book of 2008. Lynn Cullen is the author of Reign of Madness, a 2011 Best of the South selection by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and 2012 Townsend Prize finalist, and The Creation of Eve, named among the best fiction books of 2010 by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and an Indie Next selection. ![]()
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![]() ![]() 'This anonymous androdaemon,' one reviewer called it. She didn’t put her name on her book-she published 'Frankenstein' anonymously, in 1818, not least out of a concern that she might lose custody of her children-and she didn’t give her monster a name, either. Pregnant again only weeks later, she was likely still nursing her second baby when she started writing 'Frankenstein,' and pregnant with her third by the time she finished. 'Dream that my little baby came to life again that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lived,' she wrote in her diary. 'Nurse the baby, read,' she had written in her diary, day after day, until the eleventh day: 'I awoke in the night to give it suck it appeared to be sleeping so quietly that I would not awake it,' and then, in the morning, 'Find my baby dead.' With grief at that loss came a fear of 'a fever from the milk.' Her breasts were swollen, inflamed, unsucked her sleep, too, grew fevered. "Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley began writing 'Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus' when she was eighteen years old, two years after she'd become pregnant with her first child, a baby she did not name. The Strange and Twisted Life of Frankenstein ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unforgettable for its artistry and intimacy, Beautiful Thing is a vivid portrait of one reporter's journey into the dark, damaged soul of Bombay.Ī Guardian, Observer, and Economist Best Book of the YearĪ Time Out India Subcontinental Book of the Year ![]() Sonia Faleiro has crafted one of the most original works of nonfiction about India in years. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive-and to win. When an ambitious politician cashed in on a tide of false morality and had Bombay's dance bars wiped out, Leela's proud independence faced its greatest test. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay's dance bars: a world of glamorous women of fierce love, sex, and violence of gangsters, police, prostitutes, and pimps. Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met nineteen-year-old Leela, a charismatic exotic dancer with a story to tell. Already published in India to great acclaim and named a Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year and an Observer Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombay's notorious sex industry. ![]() |