Machines Like Me
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Machines Like Me by Ian Mcewan
From Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Moving. . . . Masterly . . . provocative. --The New York Times Book Review A feat of literary sorcery. --O, The Oprah Magazine A] carefully constructed comedy of terrors. . . . McEwan is] one of the most elegant writers alive. --The Washington Post Witty and humane . . . a cautionary fable about artificial intelligence, consent, and justice. --The New YorkerSet in an uncanny alternative 1982 London--where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence--Machines Like Me powerfully portrays two lovers who will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first generation of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he codesigns Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and smart--and a love triangle soon forms. Ian McEwan's subversive, gripping novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human--our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of sixteen books, including The Children Act, Sweet Tooth, Solar, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, On Chesil Beach, Saturday, and Atonement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W.H. Auden Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385545112 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385545118 |
| Title | Machines Like Me |
| Author | Ian Mcewan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Nan A. Talese |
| Year published | 2019-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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