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Speak

A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An i...

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Main Author: Hall, Louisa, 1982- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Communication > Fiction.
Comprehension > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Summary: A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal lifelike dolls. Each of these characters is attempting to communicate across gaps -- to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them.
Physical Description: 316 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 0062391194
9780062391193
Author Notes: Louisa Hall is an American novelist and poet. She was born in 1982, and raised in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard with a BA in English, she played squash professionally and worked in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin Psychiatric Hospital.

Hall is the author of the novels Speak and The Carriage House, and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.


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