Sensation Machines, Adam Wilson
Sensation Machines, Adam Wilson
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Sensation Machines

Author: Adam Wilson

Narrator: Allyson Ryan, Roger Wayne

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

A razor-sharp, darkly funny, and deeply human rendering of a future that's nearly upon us.

Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: he's lost the couple's life savings. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple—and the country.

An endlessly twisty novel of big ideas, Sensation Machines is a brilliantly observed human drama that grapples with greed, automation, universal basic income, revolutionary desires, and a broken justice system. Adam Wilson implicates not only the powerbrokers gaming the system and getting rich at the intersection of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley, and Capitol Hill, but all of us: each one of us playing our parts, however willingly or unwillingly, in the vast systems that define and control our lives.

About Adam Wilson

Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen, which was an Indie Next Pick and a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, as well as the short story collection What's Important Is Feeling. A recipient of the Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor, his work has appeared in Harper's, Tin House, the Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories, among other publications. Wilson has taught in the creative writing programs at Columbia and NYU. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark

“Broder liked her long, elegant nose with its flat bridge and nostril flare.” I picked the sentence above more or less randomly to give you a flavor of this book’s style. The book is written from multiple points of view but every one of them is the point of view of someone who notices and passes judg......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Sensation Machines is set in the near future and is a combination of satire, social commentary, and crime story. The story starts from two points of view, Michael and Wendy. Two well off Manhattanites whose marriage is crumbling as a result of a miscarriage and Michael losing their money in some bad......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

This is kind of a difficult book to review. I wanted to gather my thoughts and produce something more coherent that exclamations of its genius and so took my time, but it never quite became crystalized, so I’m just going to ramble, like I tend to anyways. Ok, title first, the title refers to people......more