Machines Like Me and People Like You

Ian McEwan

ISBN 10: 0385545118 / ISBN 13: 9780385545112

Published by Nan A. Talese, 2019

About this Item

The author signed a bound in special page, e.g the paper for this page is different than the paper for the rest of the book, which is between the first and third front free end papers. There are 333 pages to this work of fiction. boards are covered with black paper and a black cloth spine cover with silver lettering on the spine. The book is clean internally and externally, the spine ends are stiff, the corners sharp, and there is no writing in the book or on the dust jacket other than the author's signature. The dust jacket is currently protected by a clear removable cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Machines Like Me and People Like You
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385545118
• ISBN 13: 9780385545112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart, or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.

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 soon forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma.

Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, coming in September!

About the Authors

IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

IAN McEWAN is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.