Hands On
by Andrew Rosenheim
A powerful love story, Stillriver, is also a novel about family relationships and the tensions of life in a small close-knit community.
BuyA powerful love story, Stillriver, is also a novel about family relationships and the tensions of life in a small close-knit community.
BuyFrederick Madison is the hard-drinking Hemingway of the modern poetry world. His estranged son Robert – once a Harvard Professor of Linguistics, now an Artificial Intelligence wizard for a multinational computer company – has always felt overshadowed by the domineering grand old man of letters.
When Robert is sent to England to develop a special program in Oxford, he realizes he has the perfect opportunity to extract a spectacular filial revenge. Determined to teach a computer to write like an angel (or his father...), Robert enters a confusing world of 'authentic fakery', little foreseeing the consequences. Part satire, part love story, Hands On is a fast-paced story of high tech and low motives, by a novelist described by The New York Times as "approximating the savagery of Evelyn Waugh."