MACHINES LIKE ME: Ian McEwan Signed 1st Edition

MACHINES LIKE ME
 
Ian McEwan
 
Jonathan Cape / Vintage Publishing
 
SIGNED BY IAN McEWAN
 
1st EDITION / PRINTING
 
'This is new and exciting ground for McEwan, one of Britain's most brilliant writers.’ - Esquire
 
'Gripping and pleasurably dizzying' - The Independent
 
'Ian McEwan is on top form, this is right up there with his very best' - The Guardian
 
 
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
 
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs 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 batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
 
· Title Machines Like Me
· Author Ian McEwan
· Publisher Vintage Publishing
· Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
· Binding Hardback
· Width 15.6cm
· Height 24.0cm
· Number of pages 320