The answer is a form of narrative, which is also what stops the texts themselves from floating around like a digital stew. At one gory stage, parts go their separate ways, and the Girl has to learn how to put herself together again. She's a survivor,175 years old and now toting a laptop. Katherine Hayles, UCLA 'Whatever trail you take, you have to admire heroic dimensions. Landow, author of Hypertext 3.0 'A cult hit.' - Village Voice 'Wonderfully rich and complex.' - N.

“Perhaps the true paradigmatic work of the era, Shelley Jackson's elegantly designed, beautifully composed Patchwork Girl offers the patient reader, if there are any left in the world, just such an experience of losing oneself to a text, for as one plunges deeper and deeper into one's own personal exploration of the relations here of creator to created and of body to text, one never fails to be rewarded and so is drawn ever deeper, until clicking the mouse is as unconscious an act as turning a page, and much less constraining, more compelling.” - Robert Coover Praise for Patchwork Girl 'Brilliantly conceived and beautifully written.' - George P. Frankenstein?Īnd what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?

What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster - not the fictional Dr. What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true? NEW EDITION: Now available on USB Drive for Macintosh.

Half Life by Shelley Jackson