Eastern standard tribe

Description

Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, cooperating, conspiring, to help each other out, coordinated by a global network of Wi-Fi, instant messaging, ubiquitous computing, and a shared love of Manhattan-style bagels. Or perhaps not. Art is, after all, in the nuthouse. He was put there by a conspiracy of his friends and loved ones, fellow travelers from EST hidden in the bowels of Greenwich Mean Time, spies masquerading as management consultants who strive to mire Europe in oatmeal-thick bureaucracy. Eastern Standard Tribe is a story of madness and betrayal, of society after the End of Geography, of the intangible factors that define us as a species, as a tribe, as individuals. Scathing, bitter, and funny, EST examines the immutable truths of time, of sunrise and sunset of societies smashed and rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication.

Description

Art is many things. He is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. He is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on data flow management software for the Mass. Turnpike. He is an industrial saboteur, making that software as counterintuitive and user-hostile as possible. Art is also in an insane asylum outside of Boston.

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Other Editions

• Eastern standard tribeTor2005-01-01
• Eastern standard tribeTor2004-01-01
• Eastern Standard TribeDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom2005-01-01
• Eastern Standard TribeDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom2005-01-01
• Eastern Standard TribeLibrary Binding2008-05-29
• Eastern Standard TribeHarperCollins Publishers2010-01-01