Book description
New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram
for the King
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred
America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to
stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally
do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself
and his splintering family together in the face of the global
economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac
novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a
moving story of how we got here.
'A master of the surprising metaphor, Eggers's great skill is in
tracking the exuberant chaos of thought, with all its sudden
poignancies and unexpected joys' Daily Telegraph
'Among the most influential writers in the English language' GQ
'Eggers can write like an angel' Tablet
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, You
Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What, The Wild
Things and Zeitoun. Zeitoun was the winner of the American
Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and What is the
What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle
Award and won France's Prix Medici. Eggers is the founder and
editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in
San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California
with his wife and two children.
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books:
A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius
,
How We Are Hungry
,
You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What
,
The Wild Things
and
Zeitoun. Zeitoun
was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace
Prize and
What is the What
was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won
France's
Prix Medici
. Eggers is the founder and editor of
McSweeney's
, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of
Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
