Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs - Couverture souple

Lyons, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306817411 ISBN 13 : 9780306817410

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2008

Synopsis

Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: "Obviously we can't literally put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way." Fake Steve the political hobnobber: "I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch." Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: "Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don't know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin." And on, yes, himself: "Geniuses have feelings, too." In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: "It's like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he's got telekinetic powers and it's just too bad if he doesn't want them, he's got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It's who I am."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fake Steve Jobs is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction with something of an insider's knowledge of the high-tech industry. He decided to use his powers for good by starting up the wildly popular blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com), which created the persona and voice for this novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306817411
• ISBN 13: 9780306817410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 257
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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