A Working Theory of Love
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241962565
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
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A Working Theory of Love

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24 Apr 2013
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11 Apr 2014
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'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland' Metro

Silicon 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...
  • Published: 11 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241962565
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

Praise for A Working Theory of Love

Electrifying. Clever, funny and very entertaining

The New York Times

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

Guardian

Worthy of Chuck Palahniuk . . . Hutchins's satirical take on 21st-century existence is sharply observed

Independent

Touching and extremely funny, Neill Bassett is a disenchanted bachelor for the Noughties generation. Brilliantly achieved

GQ

Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest

San Francisco Chronicle

Terrific. Throughout, Hutchins hits that sweet spot where humour and melancholy comfortably coexist

Entertainment Weekly

Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland

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