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Galatea 2.2

Richard Powers

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Paperback

Forthcoming
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English
RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
27 May 2025
A brand new edition of the thrilling novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory

Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory.

After 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.

Lentz 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.

'An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty' New York Times
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Imprint:   RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   250g
ISBN:   9781804951729
ISBN 10:   1804951722
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

Reviews for Galatea 2.2

An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work ... It soars and spins ... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty * New York Times * Extraordinary. Entertainment of a very high order ... One of the best books of the year * GQ * Powers ... can nail emotional complexities with precision, while using his characters to explore how emerging technologies might shape our lives * Daily Telegraph * An extraordinary and brilliant novel of ideas * Time Out * Tense and heartbreaking * Los Angeles Times * A splendid intellectual adventure ... a heartbreaking love story * Washington Post * Nothing less than brilliant * John Updike * Dazzling ... A cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling. A lively tour de force * New York Times *


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