{"product_id":"eastern-standard-tribe-9781250196415","title":"Eastern Standard Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Cory Doctorow, a powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScathing, bitter and funny, \u003ci\u003eEastern Standard Tribe \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the immutable truths of time, and of societies rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, 24 hours a day. But one thing hasn't changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into Tribes held together by a common time zone, less than family and more than nations. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted-not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhich might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside Boston, debating whether to push a pencil into his brain....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250196415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Cory Doctorow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924977881269,"sku":"9781250196415","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0163ae8e-eac8-4261-a5bb-c3a3fa88ccc0.jpg?v=1687842778","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/eastern-standard-tribe-9781250196415","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}