The Tin Men [Hardcover]

Michael Frayn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 191 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 2nd Pntg. edition (1965)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006122604
• ISBN-13: 978-0006150664
• ASIN: B0000CMFNP
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,032,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Frayn got it right about computers for writers...in 1965, January 19, 2012

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Jessica Weissman "poet and computer programmer" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tin Men (Hardcover)

This is one of the earliest depictions of computers as a force in journalism and writing. Amazingly, Frayn got it close to right in detail.

But what matters is how funny and insightful he is about how the coming of computers shakes up a workplace and an industry.

Grab a copy if you ever see one!