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A Working Theory of Love
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'Tremendous big clever. Every once in a while a novel comes along and speaks to a generation ... has much to say about what it means to live love and lose in the twenty-first century' Guardian
Silicon Valley: home of online start-ups couture coffee sexual meditation and the future. In its midst Neill Bassett is helping to build the world's first artificial intelligence - a computer that talks thinks lies and if all goes to plan feels bad about it too. But when the experiment swerves in an unexpected direction Neill is forced to confront a few buried feelings of his own - for his ex-wife for his dead father for his twenty-first-century life and for a very twenty-first-century woman called Rachel who might just hold the answer to it all...
'Electrifying. Clever funny and very entertaining' The New York Times
'Worthy of Chuck Palahniuk ... Hutchins's satirical take on 21st-century existence is sharply observed' Independent
'Touching and extremely funny Neill Bassett is a disenchanted bachelor for the Noughties generation. Brilliantly achieved' GQ
'Inventive intelligent hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest' San Francisco Chronicle
'Terrific. Throughout Hutchins hits that sweet spot where humour and melancholy comfortably coexist' Entertainment Weekly
'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland' Metro
Scott Hutchins teaches at Stanford University California. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly The Rumpus The New York Times and Esquire. This is his first novel.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
330
Release Date:
2014-03-06
Publication Date:
2014-03-06
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0241962560
ISBN13:
9780241962565
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
394 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
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