Machines Like Me
Subtitle: and People Like You
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780735278196
Copyright date: 2019
First sentence: It was religious yearning granted hope, it was the holy grail of science.
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 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.	
--front flap