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Machines Like Me And People Like You

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Publisher: McClelland Stewart CO Random House Inc

Author: Ian McEwan

**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: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Published date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 23607
Number of pages: 305
Weight: 282g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 24mm

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