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Hall, Louisa, 1982-

Hall, Louisa

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"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life. In telling a story that ranges from pregnancy to miscarriage to traumatic birth, from motherhood to the frontiers of reproductive science, Louisa Hall draws powerfully from her own experiences, as well as the stories of two other women: Mary Shelley and Anna, a scientist and would-be parent who is contemplating the possibilities, and morality, of genetic modification. Both devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life, and a profoundly feminist exploration of motherhood, female friendship, and artistic ambition."-- "A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life. In telling a story that ranges from pregnancy to miscarriage to traumatic birth, from motherhood to the frontiers of reproductive science, Louisa Hall draws powerfully from her own experiences, as well as the stories of two other women: Mary Shelley and Anna, a scientist and would-be parent who is contemplating the possibilities, and morality, of genetic modification. Both devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, Reproduction is a powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new life, and a profoundly feminist exploration of motherhood, female friendship, and artistic ambition."--|cPublisher marketing.

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Fiction

Fiction

HALL

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
Cary Regional
Duraleigh Road Community
East Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Holly Springs Community
Leesville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Richard B. Harrison Community
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Wake Forest Community
Wendell Community
Zebulon Community

9780063283626

2023

ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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Childbirth -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Fiction
Literature
Miscarriage -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
Motherhood -- Fiction
Novels
Pregnancy -- Fiction
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851. -- Frankenstein

Reproduction

Reproduction / Louisa Hall

Reproduction

Childbirth
Families
Female friendship
Miscarriage
Motherhood
Pregnancy
Psychological aspects
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft