Brother Nature

Llewellyn, Robert

ISBN 10: 0340751142 / ISBN 13: 9780340751145

Editore: Hodder Paperbacks, London, 2002

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Light reading and cover creases, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Larry Rostant. ; 384 pages; Professor Nina Nash, leading cybernetics specialist, is just too damn clever. But there is on problem she's never understood - it's called Jason, and he's her brother. Jason is a dot commoner with an exceptional skilla t wasting other people's money. Now he's beensaved from extinction by a group of seemingly benighn American scientists and wnat to enrol big sis to help in a brave new project. This time she may finally discover what makes Jason tick. She's going to stick a microchip under his skin and, literally, read his emotions on her computer screen.

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• Titolo: Brother Nature
• Editore: Hodder Paperbacks, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340751142
• ISBN 13: 9780340751145
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Reprint; First Printing.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Nina Nash is thirty-three when she decides the time has finally come to sort out her annoying little brother. Little brother Jason is thirty now and a failed dot.commer; Nina, who works for a high tech research company, is going to work out at last what makes Jason tick. She's going to stick a microchip under his skin and, literally, read his emotions on her computer screen. The experiment is more successful than Nina ever could have hoped. And the results of the experiment more astonishing...

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'Brother Nature is proof that his 'new Ben Elton' tag - intended as a compliment - is one he's more than fit to bear' (Mirror )

'As an equally alarming parallel strain of governmental intrigue emerges in the story, it soon takes on the page-turning qualities of a finely honed thriller' (Play )

'Llewellyn has his finger on the pulse of society, and his marriage of technology and black humour here is both very funny and irresistibly readable' (Good Book Guide )

'The page-turning qualities of a finely-honed thriller' (The Times )

'Robert wries comedy about serious subjects and his fourth novel, Brother Nature, tackles cybernatic development and the hazards of placing computer chips in humans...llewellyn has long been making the nation laugh with his writing His talent for penning comedy has prompted some to describe him as the new Ben Elton' (Hello )

'Llewellyn has his finger on the pulse of society, and his marriage of technicnology and black humour is very funny and irresistably readable' (Good Book Guide )