Machines Like Me:
Subtitle: and People Like You
Edition: First Large Print Edition (1)
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780593152812
Copyright date: 2019
Description: Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. 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 synthetic humans and--with Miranda's help--he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle soon forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma. In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart--or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.
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