![]() ![]() ![]() 'Machines' is a sharp, unsettling read, which-despite its arteries being clogged with research and back story-has a lot on its mind about love, family, jealousy and deceit. Yet he's such a masterly writer of prose and provocative thinker of thoughts that even his lesser novels leave marks. Writing for The New York Times, Jeff Giles notes, "It is not the first, or even the 10th, place to start reading McEwan if you've never encountered him before. The story revolves around an android named Adam and its/his relationship with its/his owners, Charlie and Miranda, which involves the formation of a love triangle.Īccording to review aggregator website Bookmarks, critical reception was mostly positive. The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative history timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is still alive, and the Internet, social media, and self-driving cars already exist. The novel was published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape. Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. ![]()
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