Eastern Standard Tribe Audiobook (Free)

A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping

Art is an up-and-coming user interface designer focusing on the management of data stream along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He’s performing the best function of his profession and can assurance that the machine will be, without a question, one of the most counterintuitive, user-hostile software application ever forced forth onto the world.

Why? Because Artwork is an industrial saboteur. He might reside in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art’s about Eastern Standard Tribe real home may be the Eastern Regular Tribe.

Instant wifi communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours each day. But a very important factor hasn’t changed: the necessity for rest. The world is certainly slowly splintering into tribes kept together with a common time zone. Art is normally attempting to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the advantage of his very own people. However in a world without boundaries, nothing can be used for granted-not pleasure, not money, and most certainly not love … which can explain why Art discovers himself stranded on the top of an insane asylum outside of Boston.

“Doctorow lives up to the guarantee of his first novel…This brief novel’s occasionally bitter, sometimes hilarious, and often wackily appealing protagonist consistently skewers those evils of contemporary culture he keeps most pernicious.”-Web publishers Weekly