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Murmur

By:

Eaves, Will

Publication details: New York Bellevue Literary Press 2019Description: 182 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

1942658648

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Summary: Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing. Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for ""gross indecency with another male"" and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness.

List(s) this item appears in: Homerton: Diverse Perspectives reading list | Homerton: Telling Tales reading list | Homerton: Wellcome Book Prize

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WM 645 EAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		17205

Originally published: London: CB Editions, 2018.

Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing. Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for ""gross indecency with another male"" and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness.

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