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.
General
| Imprint: |
Luath Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
July 2017 |
| Authors: |
Angus Peter Campbell
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 142 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-912147-08-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-912147-08-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781912147083 |
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