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Speak
Louisa Hall
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Description for Speak
Paperback. For fans of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood comes this poignant novel from Waterstones Book Club author Louisa Hall, with a tale will make readers everywhere question what it really means to be human. Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, calls Speak the 'rarest of finds'. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and ... Read more
She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing's conviction in the 1950s, to a genius imprisoned in 2040 for creating illegally lifelike dolls: all these lives have shaped and changed a single artificial intelligence - MARY3. In Speak she tells you their story, and her own. It is the last story she will ever tell, spoken both in celebration and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780356506098
SKU
V9780356506098
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About Louisa Hall
After graduating from Harvard, Louisa Hall played squash professionally while working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Texas, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin State Psychiatric Hospital. She is the author of the novel The Carriage House ... Read more
Reviews for Speak
A thumping good read. Every time I sit down with it, it makes me happy all over again
Joe Hill, author of HORNS Reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood . . . a brilliant novel
Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON Comes out of nowhere and hits like a thunderbolt. It's not just one ... Read more
Joe Hill, author of HORNS Reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood . . . a brilliant novel
Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON Comes out of nowhere and hits like a thunderbolt. It's not just one ... Read more