Book description
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice
Sendak's classic
Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a
helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been
considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged.
After a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and
sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive
beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains
their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?
'A life-affirming delight' GQ
'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist
'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia
Award-winning author Dave Eggers is the editor and founder of
American literary journal McSweeney's and the founder of 826 Valencia,
a non-profit literacy centre for disadvantaged young people in San
Francisco. He is the author of several novels, collections of short
stories and non-fiction works, including his first novel A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What is the What (winner of
the Prix Medici and finalist of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle
Award), Zeitoun, The Wild Things (a novel adapted from the illustrated
book Where the Wild Thing Are by Maurice Sendak), How We Are Hungry,
You Shall Know Our Velocity and, most recently, A Hologram for the King.
Dave Eggers is the author of
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
,
You Shall Know Our Velocity
,
How We Are Hungry
,
What is the What
and the forthcoming
Zeitoun
. He is also the founder of America's finest literary journal,
McSweeney's
, and is the co-writer, with Spike Jonze, of the live-action film,
Where the Wild Things Are
, directed by Jonze and released in October 2009.
