What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?
What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?
And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?
This is their story.
"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
Order now...and find out why Voice Literary Supplement editor Joy Press called Shelley Jackson "a hypertext star," and selected her for the VLS special issue, "Writers on the Verge."
Shelley Jackson is the author of Patchwork Girl. A self-described "student in the art of digression," Jackson holds an AB in studio art from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. A Village Voice "Writer on the Verge" and Pushcart Prize winner, she is also the author of the forthcoming Half Life, The Melancholy of Anatomy, several children's books, and SKIN, a story published in tattoos on the skin of 2095 volunteers.
Patchwork Girl
by Shelley Jackson
for Macintosh and Windows (hybrid CD)
ISBN 1-884511-23-6 ..... $24.95
Facts about Patchwork Girl
Patchwork Girl is a hypertext novel that combines original fiction and artwork to tell the story of a female Frankenstein monster.
Shelley Jackson constructed Patchwork Girl using the Storyspace hypertext authoring system.
Patchwork Girl was published by Eastgate Systems in 1995.
Now in its fifth printing, Patchwork Girl is Eastgate's best-selling title.
Patchwork Girl is taught in classrooms around the world.
Want to learn more about Storyspace?
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In Writing At The Edge, George Landow presents lessons from the famed Brown Hypertext Workshop, training ground for Shelley Jackson, Mary-kim Arnold, and many other fine hypertext writers.
