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Author McEwan, Ian, author.

Title Machines like me : and people like you / Ian McEwan.

Publisher New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2019]
©2019

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ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Eagle River adult fiction  FIC MCE    AVAILABLE
 Hayward adult and young adult fiction  MCE    AVAILABLE
 Manitowish Waters adult fiction  F McE    AVAILABLE
 Presque Isle adult fiction  F McE    AVAILABLE
 Superior adult fiction  FICTION McEwan, Ian    AVAILABLE
Edition First United States edition.
Descript 333 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary "Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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. 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 against the power to invent things beyond our control"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Androids -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Genre Psychological fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Thrillers (Fiction)
ISBN/ISSN 0385545118 (hardback)
9780385545112 (hardback)