How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Gill, Michael Gates

ISBN 10: 0143142402 ISBN 13: 9780143142409

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2007

Synopsis

A riches-to-rags story about a former advertising executive who, after losing his high-paying job and developing a brain tumor, took a job at Starbucks under a young African-American manager, whose positive character and disadvantaged background helped the author heal and understand the value of respecting others. Simultaneous.

About this title

Review:

'Articulate, charming'.
The New York Times

‘One great read.’
The Wall Street Journal

‘A great lesson in finding your highest self in the unlikeliest of
places – proof positive that there is no way to happiness – rather, happiness is the way.’
Wayne Dyer

About the Author:

The son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, Michael Gates Gill was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising, where he was employed for over twenty-five years. He lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he’s ever had.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143142402
• ISBN 13: 9780143142409
• Binding: Audio CD