Sunnyvale
Subtitle: the rise and fall of a Silicon Valley family
By: Jeff Goodell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Goodell, Jeff.; Goodall family.; Sunnyvale (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; Sunnyvale (Calif.) -- Biography.; Sunnyvale (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Santa Clara County (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Then one day his mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family is the story of a fragile, all-too-ordinary family caught at the epicenter of one of the great economic, cultural, and technological explosions in recent history.".

"After the divorce, Goodell's mother went to work for a little company called Apple Computer and began her ascent into the new world; his father, a landscape contractor who valued plants and trees over bits and bytes, found himself alone and falling farther and farther behind.

For the Goodell children, the aftershocks brought pain and confusion: Jeff ran off to Lake Tahoe and the fast track to nowhere; his younger brother, Jerry, began a nightmarish descent into drugs, alcohol, and sexual experimentation; and eleven-year-old Jill bounced between two houses, struggling to make sense of her shattered world.".

"Watching it all was grandfather Leonard Goodell, a Westinghouse ur-geek who - even in his late seventies - still had enough mental horsepower to work as a lead engineer in a robotics factory. But as Leonard watched his son's family fall apart, he realized his worldly success had not come without a human cost, and near the end of his life he began his own quest for forgiveness and redemption."--BOOK JACKET.