Machines Like Me : From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Paperback / softback
by Ian McEwan
Paperback / softback
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**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
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- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/03/2020
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- ISBN:9781529111255
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781529111255