The Resource Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
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The item Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library.
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- Summary
- Pearl's job is to make people happy. As a technician for the Apricity Corporation, with its patented happiness machine, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness." As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either. Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about the advance of technology and the ways that it can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Note
- This item was generously purchased by the Friends of the Thunder Bay Public Library. 39341012505221
- Isbn
- 9780525533122
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight
- Title
- Tell the machine goodnight
- Statement of responsibility
- Katie Williams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Pearl's job is to make people happy. As a technician for the Apricity Corporation, with its patented happiness machine, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind of "pursuit of happiness." As his mother, Pearl wants nothing more than to help Rhett--but is it for his sake or for hers? Certainly it would make Pearl happier. Regardless, her son is one person whose emotional life does not fall under the parameters of her job--not as happiness technician, and not as mother, either. Told from an alternating cast of endearing characters from within Pearl and Rhett's world, Tell the Machine Goodnight delivers a smartly moving and entertaining story about the advance of technology and the ways that it can most surprise and define us. Along the way, Katie Williams playfully illuminates our national obsession with positive psychology, our reliance on quick fixes. What happens when these obsessions begin to overlap? With warmth, humor, and a clever touch, Williams taps into our collective unease about the modern world and allows us see it a little more clearly
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Katie
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Self-realization
- Mothers and sons
- Happiness
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
- Note
- This item was generously purchased by the Friends of the Thunder Bay Public Library. 39341012505221
- Control code
- on1006531963
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525533122
- Lccn
- 2017039824
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
- Note
- This item was generously purchased by the Friends of the Thunder Bay Public Library. 39341012505221
- Control code
- on1006531963
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525533122
- Lccn
- 2017039824
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