How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Gill, Michael Gates

ISBN 10: 1592402860 / ISBN 13: 9781592402861

Published by Gotham, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
• Publisher: Gotham
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592402860
• ISBN 13: 9781592402861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A riches-to-rags story about a former advertising executive who, after losing his high-paying job and developing a brain tumor, took a job at Starbucks under a young African-American manager, whose positive character and disadvantaged background helped the author heal and understand the value of respecting others.

About the Author

Michael Gates Gill is the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill and he was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising where he was employed for over 25 years. He currently lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he's ever had.