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Frankissstein

What happens to the soul in the interregnum between death and reanimation? How do you love someone “forever” when forever is, quite literally, forever?

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Review of ‘Frankissstein’

We already replace knees and lenses and hips with superior mechanical parts. We can implant devices to augment our abilities, from delivering insulin to stimulating the heart to beat. What happens when we can replace the whole body? Such is the question at the heart—or maybe CPU—of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.

The mechanics of the story…

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