The Resource Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
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- Summary
- Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, 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. --
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight
- Title
- Tell the machine goodnight
- Statement of responsibility
- Katie Williams
- Subject
-
- truePurpose in life
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMothers and sons
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueNear future
- trueRejection (Psychology)
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- trueTechnology -- Social aspects
- trueTeenage boys
- trueTeenagers with eating disorders
- trueWomen professional employees
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Ethical problems -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueHappiness
- Happiness -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, 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. --
- Summary
- A woman whose job it is to help people find happiness finds a challenge in her own son, who seems to get the most joy out of being unhappy
- Assigning source
- From Amazon
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10664787
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Katie
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.I558265
- LC item number
- T45 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Self-realization
- Happiness
- Ethical problems
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21435558
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525533122
- Lccn
- 2017039824
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1006531963
- Label
- Tell the machine goodnight, Katie Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21435558
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525533122
- Lccn
- 2017039824
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1006531963
Subject
- truePurpose in life
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMothers and sons
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueNear future
- trueRejection (Psychology)
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- trueTechnology -- Social aspects
- trueTeenage boys
- trueTeenagers with eating disorders
- trueWomen professional employees
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Ethical problems -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueHappiness
- Happiness -- Fiction
Genre
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
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