
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
Publisher | New Press |
Publish Date | June 17, 2004 |
Pages | 261 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781565848702 |
Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"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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