Hideous Love, Stephanie Hemphill
Hideous Love, Stephanie Hemphill
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Hideous Love
The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Author: Stephanie Hemphill

Narrator: Michelle Ford

Unabridged: 2 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Published: 10/01/2013


Synopsis

From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein.An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.

Author Bio

Stephanie Hemphill is the award-winning author of Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein; Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Sisters of Glass; and Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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