Machines Like Me
Author: McEwan, Ian
ISBN: 9781529111255
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**
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 batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.
'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute.' Sunday Times
'Dazzling' Guardian
'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9781529111255
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2020
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**
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 batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.
'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute.' Sunday Times
'Dazzling' Guardian
'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph
