Option$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306817410)

Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: "Obviously we can't literally put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way." Fake Steve the political hobnobber: "I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch." Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: "Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don't know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin." And on, yes, himself: "Geniuses have feelings, too." In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: "It's like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he's got telekinetic powers and it's just too bad if he doesn't want them, he's got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It's who I am."

Author: Daniel Lyons
ISBN-10: 0306817411
ISBN-13: 9780306817410
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2008 pg. 28