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- One Aladdin Two Lamps. by Winterson, Jeanette.;
'One Aladdin Two Lamps' cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in 'One Thousand and One Nights' to explore new and ancient questions. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy? Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Jeanette Winterson ingeniously explores stories and their vital role in our lives.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture;
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- Frankissstein : a love story / by Winterson, Jeanette,1959-author.; based on (work):Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851.Frankenstein.;
"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom 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. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself"--- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Artificial intelligence; Sex dolls; Cryonics; Transgender people;
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