{"id":13829,"title":"Microserfs","dimensions":"17.8 x 13 cm, 375 p., language : English, Flamingo (Harper Collins Publishers), London, first published in 1995, ISBN : 0-00-654859-8","date_begin":"1996-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/694","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"microserfs","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/027/large/Untitled153.jpg?1464090053","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMicroserfs \u003c/em\u003eis a hilarious, fanatically detailed and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don\u0026#39;t have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of high-tech 1990s\u0026#39; American geek culture. Amid a Seattle backdrop of software corporate cultishness and the financial terror of San Francisco and Silicon Valley tech startups, the members of Coupland\u0026#39;s quirky ensemble \u0026quot;stick a piece of dynamite inside themselves, like a cartoon cat, in the hopes that when they reassemble their exploded pieces they will be somebody different.\u0026quot;\u003c/font\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.coupland.com/books/microserfs\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://generationx.yaia.com/thebook.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website 2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2896,"name":"Douglas Coupland","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}