Galatea 2.2

<p><b>Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Overstory.</i></b><br><br>After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college. There he encounters Philip Lentz, an outspoken neurologist intent on using computers to model the human brain.<br><br>Lentz involves the writer in an outlandish and irresistible project - to train a computing system by reading a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the machine grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own age, sex, race and reason for existing.<br><br><b>''An ingenious, ambitious, at times dizzily cerebral work... It soars and spins... The novel attains an aching, melancholy beauty'' </b><b><i>New York Times</i></b></p>