The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (New York Review Books

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The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (New York Review Books Classics)

Katherine Mortenhoe lives in a near future very similar to the present day. Only in her time, dying from anything but old age is unheard of; death has been cured. So when Katherine is diagnosed with a terminal brain disease brought on by an inability to process an ever increasing volume of sensory input, she immediately becomes a celebrity to the â€œpain-starved public.â€ But Katherine rejects her tragic role: SheÂ will not agree to be the star of a Human Destiny TV show, her last days will not be documented or broadcast. What she doesnâ€™t realize is that from the moment of diagnosis sheâ€™s been watched, not only by television producers but by a new kind of program host, a man with a camera behind his unsleeping eyes.

Like Margaret Atwoodâ€™s MaddAddam trilogy, Kazuo Ishiguroâ€™s Never Let Me Go, and the television series Black Mirror, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe is a thrilling psychological drama that is as wise about human nature as it is about the nature of technology.

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (New York Review Books Classics)