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Amazonia

Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut
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Description

In a book that Ian Frazier has called "a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom," James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996, when the company was so small his e-mail address could be [email protected], looks back a decade later at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s America.

Observing "how it was to be in the right place (Seattle) at the right time (the 90s)" (Chicago Reader), Marcus offers a ringside seat on everything from his first interview with Jeff Bezos to the company's bizarre, Nordic-style retreats, creating what Jonathan Raban calls "an utterly beguiling book." For this edition, Marcus has added a new afterword with further reflections on his Amazon experience.

In the tradition of the most noteworthy and entertaining memoirs of recent years, Marcus offers us a modern-day fable, "a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout" (Henry Alford, Newsday).

Product Details

PublisherNew Press
Publish DateJune 17, 2004
Pages261
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781565848702
Dimensions8.4 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches | 0.9 pounds

About the Author

James Marcus was employed as Senior Editor at Amazon from 1996 to 2001. The executive editor of Harper's and an award-winning translator, he has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the Village Voice, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and many other publications. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

"As fine a guide to the late 1990s world of Pioneer Square and Pike Street as we are likely to see." --The Weekly Standard

"Funny, contemplative . . . a memoir that generates frequent smiles of recognition." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The most entertaining memoir I've read this year." --Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Marcus is a graceful writer with an eye for detail." --The Boston Globe

"Should win over even the most jaded dot-com vets with [its] swift, clever, and intelligent rendering of their history." --Seattle Weekly

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