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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 'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland.' Metro 'Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest.' San Francisco Chronicle
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A Working Theory of Love, Scott Hutchins
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- A Working Theory of Love
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Scott Hutchins
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0241962560
- ISBN13
- 9780241962565
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Sexuality & Intimacy, Suicide, Depression, Cults, Artificial Intelligence, California, San Francisco, Melancholy, Silicon Valley
- Rating
- 3.2 out of 5
- Description
- 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 'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland.' Metro 'Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest.' San Francisco Chronicle