{"product_id":"working-theory-of-love","title":"Working Theory of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Working Theory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e by Scott Hutchins is a recklessly witty, outrageously honest novel about sex, love and artificial intelligence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tremendous, big, clever. Every once in a while a novel comes along and speaks to a generation ... has much to say about what it means to live, love and lose in the twenty-first century'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSilicon Valley: home of online start-ups, couture coffee, sexual meditation, and the future. In its midst, Neill Bassett is helping to build the world's first artificial intelligence - a computer that talks, thinks, lies, and if all goes to plan, feels bad about it too. But when the experiment swerves in an unexpected direction, Neill is forced to confront a few buried feelings of his own - for his ex-wife, for his dead father, for his twenty-first-century life, and for a very twenty-first-century woman called Rachel, who might just hold the answer to it all...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Electrifying. Clever, funny and very entertaining'  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Worthy of Chuck Palahniuk ... Hutchins's satirical take on 21st-century existence is sharply observed'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Touching and extremely funny, Neill Bassett is a disenchanted bachelor for the Noughties generation. Brilliantly achieved'  \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest'  \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Terrific. Throughout, Hutchins hits that sweet spot where humour and melancholy comfortably coexist'  \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland'  \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Hutchins teaches at Stanford University, California. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Rumpus, The New York Times and Esquire. This is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221690962264,"sku":"9780241962565","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241962565_61601245-8b6f-452b-8f4b-c5f755bf72e2.jpg?v=1764666933","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/working-theory-of-love","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}