Machines Like Me

A Novel

Hardcover, 333 pages

English language

Published April 2019 by Nan A. Talese, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-54511-2
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OCLC Number:
1153242655

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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

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