{"title":"30925","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781804951729","title":"Galatea 2.2","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Powers, Richard\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20 February 2025 by Cornerstone (Penguin (Cornerstone)) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 24 | 252g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken neurologist intent on using computers to model the human brain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLentz involves the writer in an outlandish and irresistible project - to train a computing system by reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own age, sex, race and reason for existing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Powers, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369678418294,"sku":"9781804951729","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0362\/8423\/5908\/files\/9781804951729.jpg?v=1759239339"}],"url":"https:\/\/haslemerebookshop.co.uk\/collections\/30925.oembed","provider":"The Haslemere Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}