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The Artist's Novel
Microserfs, 1996
Book
, 17.8 x 13 cm, 375 p., language : English, Flamingo (Harper Collins Publishers), London, first published in 1995, ISBN : 0-00-654859-8
Ink, paper
Literary synopsis
Microserfs is a hilarious, fanatically detailed and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s' American geek culture. Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporate cultishness and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland's quirky ensemble "stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different."
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