9781594205057
A Working Theory of Love
Scott Hutchins
ISBN 13: 9781594205057
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Binding: Hardcover
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Settled back into the San Francisco singles scene following the implosion of his young marriage just months after the honeymoon, Neill Bassett is goingthrough the motions. His carefully modulated routine, however, is soon disrupted in ways he can’t dismiss with his usual nonchalance.When Neill’s father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be said, their complete banality. But their spectacularly quotidian details, were exactly what artificial intelligence company Amiante Systems was looking for, and Neill was able to parlay them into a job, despite a useless degree in business marketing and absolutely no experience in computer science. He has spentthe last two years inputting the diaries into what everyone hopes will become the world’s first sentient computer. Essentially, he has been giving it language—using his father’s words. Alarming to Neill—if not to the other employees of Amiante—the experiment seems to be working. The computer actually appears to be gaining awareness and, most disconcerting of all, has started asking questions about Neill’s childhood.Amid this psychological turmoil, Neill meets Rachel. She was meant to be a one-night stand, but Neill is unexpectedly taken with her andthe possibilities she holds. At the same time, he remains preoccupied by unresolved feelings for his ex-wife, who has a talent for appearing at the most unlikely and unfortunate times. When Neill discovers a missing year in the diaries—a year that must hold some secret to his parents’ marriage and perhaps even his father’s suicide—everything Neill thought he knew about his past comes into question, and every move forward feels impossible to make.With a lightness of touch that belies pitch-perfect emotional control, Scott Hutchins takes us on an odyssey of love, grief, and reconciliation that shows us how, once we let go of the idea that we’re trapped by our own sad histories—our childhoods, our bad decisions, our miscommunications with those we love—we have the chance to truly be free. A Working Theory of Love marks the electrifying debut of a prodigious new talent.
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Book Description: Penguin. 1 Cloth(s), 2012. hard. Book Condition: New. (First Edition, Signed Bookplate) When Neill Bassett's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, as stunning in their detail as they were, it must be said, in their complete banality. Yet these quotidian descriptions prove ideal for creating an artificial intelligence, and Neill has spent the last two years inputting the diaries into what everyone hopes will become the world's first sentient computer. With a new love in his life, and still recovering from the implosion of his marriage, Neill finds the new computer is gaining awareness—and asking him questions in a voice just like his father's."Scott Hutchins's wonderful new novel is right on the border of what is possible: a computer is programmed to be the reincarnation of the narrator's dead father, and the narrator, a charming thirty-something American, learns what it is to be human and to love. The book is brilliantly observant about the way we live now, and its comic and haunting story will stay lodged in the reader's memory."—Charles Baxter"It's about artificial intelligence, a man trying to resurrect his dead father, and the quest for romance in a world of one night stands. Mostly, though, it's about love in all its forms. Every sentence in Hutchins' sparkling debut is priceless."—Eric Puchner 328. Bookseller Inventory # 29641 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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