Fire on the Water: A Companion to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein interweaves Rachel’s search with the plot of Frankenstein
and the horrific occurrences of the summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley
dared to dip her quill into the ink of her darkest of waking dreams.
The truth is given life.
Summary:
Rachel,
a young American biographer researching the life of Mary Shelley in
Montreux, Switzerland, is entangled and consumed by the escalating
threads of her investigation. Shards of Shelley’s creation are exhumed
from the past. Precious memories are hacked and sutured to the
unthinkable. The unblemished flesh of the one she loves is stripped back
to reveal what lies beneath—aspects of Frankenstein incised and ripped from the nineteenth century and transplanted into her own.
The
archival records contained within the chiseled stone of Château de
Chillon give some insight into a life long gone. It is, however, the
contents of a document trunk that has remained unopened for generations
that discloses what truly occurred in the idyllic Swiss Riviera village
of Montreux to jolt the monster into existence. Personal letters and
diaries detailing events, suppers, lectures, and conversations between
Mary Shelley and her confidant, Doctor John Polidori, reveal a spiraling
progression of horrors, dismembered cadavers, and uncertainties. Doctor
Polidori assists the local gendarmerie in their investigation, unaware of how closely the knife will cut to Mary’s life and his own.
Rachel
is drawn into the centuries-old conversations as she attempts to
discern fact from fiction. But opening the trunk could not come at a
more difficult time for Rachel. Her boyfriend has recently been killed
in a motorbike accident and now, as she attempts to reconstruct her
life, she is repeatedly confronted by a man of gigantic structure, of
uncommon beauty, of intriguing origin.
Publication Date: December 12, 2013 from TWCS Publishing House
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Author Bio:
P.J. Parker was born and raised in rural Australia. With a bachelor of science in architecture from the University of New South Wales, he has traveled and lived extensively around the world, focusing on cultures of historic interest and buildings of architectural significance before transitioning into a career as a fraud analyst and programmer with a leading international financial institution. An avid reader and researcher, P.J. undertakes his writing with a passionate and exacting attention to detail.
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