Jeff Goodell

Sunnyvale

The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family

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In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.Splintered by their parent's divorce, Jeff and his siblings careen toward self-destruction, while their parents end up on opposite sides of the technological divide: their mother succeeds beyond her wildest dreams at a small company with a dopey rainbow-colored logo, called Apple, while their father refuses to keep up with the times and loses his landscaping business. Affecting and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-77638-3
EAN: 9780679776383
Produktnummer: 9503944
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

Jeff Goodell is the author of The Cyberthief and the Samurai. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Wired, and GQ. A fourth-generation Californian, he now lives in upstate New York. He can be e-mailed at jg@well.com.