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Item Details
| Title:
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THE MACHINE
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| By: |
James Smythe |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
000750750X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007507504 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
16 January, 2014 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents. |
| Synopsis: |
Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents.Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory.Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece.A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Borough Press |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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