Exit Strategy
Set in the near-future (2008), Exit Strategy is a darkly comic send-up of the dot.com mania of the late 1990s and a modern-day retelling of the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, Jamie Cohen is betrayed by his compadres but unexpectedly finds himself at the right hand of power. He helps a huge venture...
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Set in the near-future (2008), Exit Strategy is a darkly comic send-up of the dot.com mania of the late 1990s and a modern-day retelling of the story of Joseph. Like Joseph, Jamie Cohen is betrayed by his compadres but unexpectedly finds himself at the right hand of power. He helps a huge venture capitalist build pyramids - except these are investment pyramids based on technology idols. An additional narrative conceit is this: 200 years later, anthropologists find the virtual manuscript of Exit Strategy and begin annotating the text. Hundreds of readers have already contributed footnotes for the book – they are charming, wacky, compelling and Rushkoff has selected one hundred of his favorites for inclusion.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781887128902 (1887128905)
Publish date: June 25th 2002
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Pages no: 375
Edition language: English
Douglas really captured the sense of our time, with new ideas being played out in ways that are surprising yet disturbing.The tone is what I would guess as modern day British, but how real it is I'm not too sure. But you would enjoy it. Best served with cold beer and chips.