Speak: A Novel - Brossura

Hall, Louisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062391208 ISBN 13: 9780062391209

Casa editrice: EccoPress, 2016

Riassunto

Exploring the creation of artificial intelligence and illuminating the very human need for communication, connection and understanding, a thought-provoking novel is told from the perspectives of five very different people from different times and places. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“SPEAK is that rarest of finds: a novel that doesn’t remind me of any other book I’ve ever read. A complex, nuanced, and beautifully written meditation on language, immortality, the nature of memory, the ethical problems of artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human.” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven)

“SPEAK reads like a hybrid of David Mitchell and Margaret Atwood; a literary page turner that spans four centuries and examines the idea of who and what we define as human. Louisa Hall has written a brilliant novel.” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son)

Hall subtly weaves a thread through a temporally diverse cast of narrators. Like all good robot novels, Speak raises questions about what it means to be human as well as the meaning of giving voice to memory. (Booklist (starred review))

“strange, beautiful and unputdownable” (New York Post, "The Best Novels to Read this Summer")

“Hall capably weaves the stories to form a beautiful rumination on the nature of memory and the frailty of human relationships.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“While the novel’s ambitions are high-concept, Hall’s narrative is notable for its persuasive heart... Speak gazes boldly forward and lovingly back in order to report on the nature of what it means to be human now.” (Elle)

“Hall delivers a dystopian A.I. novel with real heart and soul. Told through 17th century diary entries, letters by Alan Turing, court transcripts in 2040 and instant messages between a bot and a young, brokenhearted girl, this book is strange, beautiful and unputdownable.” (New York Post, Summer Round Up)

“[A] stunning new novel... Comparisons to Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, and Helen Phillips will abound, but the remarkable Speak is a unique creation that stands on its own.” -Bustle (Bustle.com)

“Stunning and audacious... It’s not just one of the smartest books of the year, it’s one of the most beautiful ones, and it almost seems like an understatement to call it a masterpiece.” (NPR)

“Louisa Hall grapples with what it means to be human and how artificial intelligence will fit into those definitions in her ambitious new novel... It’s a complicated but compulsively readable tale, blending the voices of people who wonder whether they’ll ever be heard or, more importantly, understood.” (Austin American-Statesman)

L'autore:

Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia.  She is the author of the novels Speak and The Carriage House, and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.  She is a professor at the University of Iowa, and the Western Writer in Residence at Montana State University.

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• Editore: EccoPress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062391208
• ISBN 13: 9780062391209
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336