Dave Eggers' timely novel about our obsession with the internet, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is
Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have
It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels
to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King,
The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They
Live Forever? and Heroes of the Frontier. A Hologram for the King
and The Circle are both currently in production for major film
adaptations.
Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's independent publishing
house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation
ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family.
Publisher's description. Fast, thrilling and compulsively
addictive, The Circle is Dave Eggers' bestselling novel about our
obsession with the internet and where it may lead. When Mae Holland
lands her dream job at the world's most powerful internet company,
she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of The Circle...
*Penguin*
A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and
entertaining read
*Publisher's Weekly*
Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is
brisk, spare and efficient ... it works
*Time*
Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of
Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication'
*Guardian*
The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast,
witty and troubling
*Washington Post*
An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st
Century
*Vanity Fair*
Immensley readable and very timely
*Metro*
A gripping and highly unsettling read
*Sunday Times*
Unputdownable
*The Times*
Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world
dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable
*Observer*
Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare
to be addicted
*Daily Mail*
Compelling and deeply contemporary
*L.A Times*
Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of
information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly
characterize modern life
*Booklist*
I kept hooting in appalled recognition at his horribly plausible
story of a society in which social media becomes totalitarian
*Emma Donoghue*
A story that will come back to haunt you every time you log on to
social media
*Grayson Perry*
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