MICROSERFS (P.S.) - Softcover

Coupland, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061624268 ISBN 13: 9780061624261

Publisher: Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own--living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.

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Review:

"Coupland continues to register the buzz of his generation with fidelity."--Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review

"The novel's real fun is the frequent and rapidly fired pop-culture references that span the 70s, 80s and 90s...and Coupland uses them with relish."--Entertainment Weekly

From the Back Cover:

‘'My name is Daniel U. I am a bug tester at Microsoft. Lately I've been unable to sleep...'’

Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving audiobook about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realise they don't have a life and who subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech, 1990's American geek culture. Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hope that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different."

Coupland gives listeners an intimate, deadly accurate, and very funny view of a way of life that is quickly becoming the dominant way of life: friends, families, and lovers falling through the trap doors of the new electronic order and involved in an engaging, awkward scramble toward love and success in a brave new world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061624268
• ISBN 13: 9780061624261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400