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Synopsis
Leaving behind the ruins of a love affair, the protagonist of Richard Powers's fifth novel--a novelist named Richard Powers--returns to the United States and takes a position as a Humanist-in-Residence at the Center of Advanced Sciences. While there, Powers meets the brilliant cognitive neurologist Philip Lentz, who challenges Powers to teach a neural network to appreciate art and literature. This brilliantly conceived novel, infused with shades of FRANKENSTEIN and PYGMALION, challenges our notions of identity, communication, art, and meaning, and proves that Powers is one of the most intellectually and artistically ambitious living writers.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "It was like so, but wasn't."
Industry Reviews
"Powers is as gifted and important a novelist as we have....He has already proven himself a master of incorporating science into fiction, a poet of chaos and fuzzy logic. Here, he shows himself to be a poet of love, For 'Galatea 2.2' is a once dazzling novel of sustained thinking and a piercing cri-de-couer."
Boston Book Review - Paul Gediman
"...It takes a pedantic flair to particularize the ins and outs of artificial intelligence, and Powers' exposition of the linguistic and perceptual intricacies underlying consciousness is nothing less than brilliant."
New Yorker - John Updike (08/21/1995)
"GALATEA 2.2 is an ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work....[Richard Powers] has stitched together out of disparate materials a heady and provocative experiment and brought it to life."
(07/23/1995)
"Richard Powers' people are ideas and his ideas are people; and so, right away, he sets himself apart from writers who sketch an engaging intellectual path but don't find characters to tread it."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Eder (06/18/1995)
"A splendid intellectual adventure, a heartbreaking love story, a brief tutorial on cognitive science, and the autobiography of one of the most gifted writers of the younger generation."
Washington Post Book World - Steven Moore (07/09/1995)
"The kind of delicious novel of ideas that a computer-literate Vladimir Nabokov might have written."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Michael Berry (08/13/1995)
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