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A Working Theory of Love
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Author
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Scott Hutchins.
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Publisher
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Penguin
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Format
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hardcover, First Edition, Signed Bookplate
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ISBN
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9781594205057
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Pages/Publication Date
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328/2012
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Daedalus Item Code
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29641
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$25.95
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Description
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(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
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