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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022) is Coco Mellors’s debut novel and is currently being adapted into a television series by Warner Bros, Inc. The novel is also a popular BookTok book. Cleopatra and Frankenstein explores modern love, the pressures and debauchery of the wealthy, and the conflict between youth and age. Written mostly in third person, Cleopatra and Frankenstein centers on 24-year-old Cleo and 45-year-old Frank, two broken people who find one another in a passionate and loving fling. With secondary characters to bring diverse perspectives to the novel’s central themes, Mellors creates a glittery Manhattan world that looks pretty but is rotting from the inside.
This guide references the 2022 Bloomsbury Publishing hardcover edition.
Content Warning: This novel includes discussions of drug abuse and death by suicide.
Plot Summary
On New Year’s Eve in New York City, Cleo and Frank meet on an elevator exiting a party. Frank is in his forties, a handsome and successful creative director of his own advertising agency. Cleo is in her twenties, a broke artist who is coming up on the expiration of her student visa and is desperate not to return to a broken family in England.
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