Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the experiences of an engineering team racing to design a next generation computer under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. Published in 1981, it won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award.How can a book about the birth of a new computer possibly be of interest to somebody who is not a computer freak? Well, this book is about passion. Not the passion between a man and a woman, but rather the passion that some men have for their work. Its subject is the people who design and build computers, not the computer itself.
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