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The award-winning editor of Granta magazine examines the astonishing growth of email - and how it is affecting people's lives, not always for the better. Drawing extensively on the research of linguists, behavioural scientists, cultural critics and philosophers, Freeman examines the way email is taking a mounting toll both on language and on social behaviour. He enters a plea for communication which is slower, more nuanced and - above all - more sociable.

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[A] thoughtful and provocative book. -- Seattle Times [Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check. --The Daily Beast A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts. -- The Oregonian An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful. -- Boston Globe E-mail is eating us alive . . . Luckily for us [John Freeman] has a solution. -- Chicago Tribune Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity. -- The New Yorker We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here.... Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence. -- Bookforum

[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check. --The Daily Beast

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John Freeman is a writer and book critic who has contributed to a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal. He won the 2008 James Patterson page-turner award and lives in New York City

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