Memory and Straw
Angus Peter Campbell
Verkauft von WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 16. März 2007
Gebraucht - Softcover
Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut
Anzahl: 4 verfügbar
In den Warenkorb legenVerkauft von WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 16. März 2007
Zustand: Gebraucht - Gut
Anzahl: 4 verfügbar
In den Warenkorb legenThe book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR008582171
A face is nothing without its history.
Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She’s a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence. He’s good at his job. Scarily good. He’s researching human features to make more realistic mask-bots – non-human ‘carers’ for elderly people. When his enquiry turns personal he’s forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask.
Delving into family stories and his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face, ‘uniquely sprung from all the faces that had been’.
He returns to England to look after his Grampa. Travels. Reads old documents. Visits ruins. Borrows, plagiarises and invents.
But when Emma tells him his proper work is to make a story out of glass and steel, not memory and straw, which path will he choose? What’s the best story he can give her?
A novel about the struggle for freedom and personal identity; what it means to be human. It fuses the glass and steel of our increasingly controlled algorithmic world with the memory and straw of our forebears’ world controlled by traditions and taboos, the seasons and the elements.
Angus Peter Campbell (Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul) is an award-winning novelist and poet from the island of South Uist. His novel ‘An Oidhche Mus Do Shèol Sinn’ was voted into the Top Ten Best-Ever Books from Scotland in the Orange/List Awards in 2005 and his poetry collection ‘Aibisidh’ won the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year award in 2012.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
WorldofBooks.com fully embraces the AbeBooks terms and conditions and we will do
what we can to resolve any issues.
Orders ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.