Book Description
The Nudist on the Late Shift is the true story of a new
generation at the proving point of their lives, written by
the most exciting and authentic literary voice to emerge from
Silicon Valley, Po Bronson.
This is a defining portrait of young people
in the whirl of an information revolution and an
international gold rush. Masses of entrepreneurs and tech
wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries,
are heading west to seek their fortune and a new destiny. In
Bronson, they have found their troubadour.
Already hailed by The Village Voice Literary
Supplement as "the most complete and empathetic portrait
of the Valley so far," The Nudist on the Late Shift
establishes Bronson as the first author to capture the spirit
of this new mecca. Recently chosen by the VLS as one of
1999's "Writers on the Verge," Bronson has spent
the past decade searching Silicon Valley for the best
stories, several of which have been published in Wired. Now
he has woven those stories together, taking us inside the
world of the newcomers, brainiacs, salespeople, headhunters,
utopians, plutocrats, and innovators who are transforming our
culture.
Writes the VLS: "Bronson evocatively
portrays the overwhelming unpredictability of life in the
Valley: getting fired can be part of daily life. But with a
zero unemployment rate, the wounded don't stay that way for
long. Bronson is at his best describing this radically
shifting environment, where everyday folk with the right idea
and the stamina stand to make millions in a couple of years,
skipping rungs on the career ladder at a mind-boggling pace.
Bronson recognizes that Silicon Valley's boom is made up of
small explosions, and The Nudist puts us at ground
zero."
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