An immersive, heart-breaking debut novel about growing up and growing apart, the choices we make, and the joy, regret and surprises that can come from them: from an exceptional new British voice.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein is the story of the impulsive marriage between Cleo, a young English artist who escapes from all that Europe doesn't have to offer, to study painting in New York, and Frank, an older, self-made example of the American Dream, who is living a life full of the excesses Cleo's has been missing.
But Cleo soon learns that age does not always guarantee wisdom, and that everything she sought and found in Frank, and he in her, is not necessarily what they need. Cleo and Frank's troubles embroil an unforgettable cast of friends and family at the heart of New York's art, fashion and advertising scenes, revealing the hidden lives-sometimes destructive, often lonely, and always surprising-of a couple and a community who, from the outside, appear to have everything.
AUTHOR:
Coco Mellors was raised in London and New York City. She completed her MFA in Fiction at New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She currently lives in Venice, Los Angeles.
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