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Now in paperback, the daring, style-defying guide that questioned: Imagine if Mary Shelley hadn't created Frankenstein's creature in any way but had met him when she was a woman of eight, sitting by her mother's grave, and he found her unbidden?   In a captivating mixture of fact and poetic license, Laurie Sheck provides us the "beast" in his own terms: remembering how he was "made" and how Victor Frankenstein abandoned him; contemplating the heartbreaking story of the Shelleys and the intertwining of his living with Mary's (whose fictionalized characters sodium the story, along with those of her nineteenth century intimates); getting notes on all facets of individual striving--from Gertrude Stein to robotics for the Upper people whose unhappy mission showcases his own--as he attempts to comprehend the unusual competition that made however shuns him, and to locate his own independence of Brain.