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Sunnyvale The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family

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ISBN-10: 0679776389

ISBN-13: 9780679776383

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeff Goodell

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In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled. Splintered by their parent's divorce, Jeff and his siblings careen toward self-destruction, while their parents end up on opposite sides of the technological divide: their mother succeeds beyond her wildest dreams at "a small company with a dopey rainbow-colored logo," called Apple, while their father refuses to keep up with the times and loses his landscaping business. Affecting and personal, Sunnyvale is a portrait of one…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/7/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

JEFF GOODELL is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine . He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith . Goodell’s memoir, Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family , was a New York Times Notable Book. His most recent book, Big Coal , is the basis of an upcoming feature documentary, Dirty Business .