Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.
Machines Like Me reminds us that McEwan is once-in-a-generation
talent, offering readerly pleasure, cerebral incisiveness and an
enticing imagination.
*Spectator*
[Machines Like Me] is right up there with his very best [novels].
Machines Like Me manages to combine the dark acidity of McEwan’s
great early stories with the crowd-pleasing readability of his more
recent work. A novel this smart oughtn’t to be such fun, but it
is.
*Observer*
Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me is a dazzling account of our
interaction with technology… He marries a gripping plot, handled
with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the
narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader
pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence.
*Independent*
Compelling… unforgettably strange… there are many pleasures and
many moments of profound disquiet in this book, which reminds you
of its author’s mastery of the underrated craft of storytelling…
[Machines Like Me] is morally complex and very disturbing, animated
by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief that feels unique
to its author.
*Guardian*
[McEwan's] fierce intelligence [crackles] like a Jumping Jack on
Bonfire Night… Arguably the finest English writer of his
generation, the ideas he explores are important, now more that
ever.
*Daily Express*
[McEwan is] as mordant a chronicler of the age as we have… Machines
Like Me offers as good a primer on the multifarious anxieties that
should afflict us all as anything catalogued as “non-fiction”.
*GQ*
Machines like Me displays… impressive richness. Excited by ideas
and perceptive about emotions, encompassing cutting-edge science,
philosophical speculation and lively social observation, it is
funny, thought-provoking and politically acute… In this bravura
performance, literary flair and cerebral sizzle winningly
combine.
*Sunday Times*
Original, and as always with McEwan’s novels, beautifully
written.
*Independent, *Summer Reads of 2019**
McEwan knows all the novelistic rules… [and his] restlessness when
it comes to subject matter, even as he enters his seventies, is
stunning… [Machines Like Me] shimmer[s] with relevance.
*Financial Times*
[Machines Like Me] traverses the muddled morality of Artificial
Intelligence... This is new and exciting ground for McEwan, one of
Britain's most consistently brilliant writers.
*Harper's Bazaar, *The Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2019**
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