Speak - Couverture souple

Hall, Louisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062391208 ISBN 13 : 9780062391209

Editeur : EccoPress, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“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)

Quatrième de couverture :

“Everything you could want in a story is here: courage and cowardice, lust and devotion, sickness and health, partings and death, better and worse. Speak is a novel that calls to the reader in many voices, harnessed to one distinct and singular imagination—Louisa Hall’s. Turn to page one and be amazed.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman

In a narrative that spans geography and time, told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human, and what it means to be less than fully alive. A Puritan woman freshly arrived in the New World, mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, a computer science professor, a young girl, and a former Silicon Valley wunderkind now in prison are all attempting to communicate . . . with estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them. Although each speaks from a distinct place and moment in time, they all share the need to express themselves while simultaneously wondering if they will ever be heard, or understood.

In dazzling and electrifying prose, Louisa Hall explores how the chasm between computer and human—shrinking rapidly with today’s technological advances—echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people.

“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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: EccoPress
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062391208
• ISBN 13: 9780062391209
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 336