Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. In 2002, with Ninive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities around the country have since opened sister 826 centers. Eggers lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
A National Book Award Finalist, A Northern California Book Award
Finalist One of the New York Times Book Review's "Top Ten Books of
2012" ?Mr. Eggers uses a new, pared down, Hemingwayesque voice to
recount his story... he demonstrates in Hologram that he is master
of this more old-fashioned approach as much as he was a pioneering
innovator with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius....[This]
sad-funny-dreamlike story unfolds to become an allegory about the
frustrations of middle-class America, about the woes unemployed
workers and sidelined entrepreneurs have experienced in a newly
globalized world in which jobs are being outsourced abroad.... A
comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also
provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times."
?Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A spare but moving elegy for
the American century."?Publishers Weekly "Eggers can do fiction as
well as he likes."?Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times ?A
potent, well-drawn portrait of one man's discovery of where his
personal and professional selves split and connect."?Kirkus Reviews
?An extraordinary work of timely and provocative themes...This
novel reminds us that above all, Eggers is a writer of books, and a
writer of the highest order?.An outstanding achievement in Eggers's
already impressive career, and an essential read."?Carmela Ciuraru,
The San Francisco Chronicle ?Eggers understands the pressures of
American downward-mobility, and in the protagonist of his novel,
Alan Clay, has created an Everyman, a post-modern Willy Loman?.The
novel operates on a grand and global scale, but it also is
intimate."?Elizabeth Taylor, The Chicago Tribune
?Fascinating...Although Godot may be Hologram's philosophical
source, Eggers is no Beckettian minimalist. The novel is
paradoxically suspenseful, but it's also rich in character and in
Eggers's evocative writing about place?A Hologram for the King, as
far from home as it might seem, is an acute slice of American
life."?Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times "Dave Eggers is a prince
among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious
books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the
King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global
economic injustice."
?Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair ?Completely engrossing."
?Daniel Roberts, Fortune ?A heartbreaking character study."?Nick
DiMartino, Shelf Awareness ?Deft and darkly comic?Beautifully
enlivened by oddball encounters and oddball characters, by
stranger-in-a-strange-land episodes."?Steven Rea, The Philadelphia
Inquirer ?Eggers' spare prose is a pleasure, and A Hologram for the
King proves to be a deft blend of surreal adventure, absurd comedy
and pointed observations."?Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News ?As
the kingless days pass, Alan ventures from the tent and hotel into
the rich, unsettling realities of the Kingdom, and Eggers ventures
deeper into Alan, as well as into the question that has seemingly
guided Eggers' work for years: What does it mean to be an American
in a world that has places like the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, or
post-Katrina New Orleans?"?Alan Scherstuhl, San Francisco Weekly
?[Hologram] has at its center a sort of moral vision quest...
Alan's plight is endearing in its universality, even while being
singularly his."?Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago "Eggers has
given us a work of fiction that works as a perfect commentary on
this American decade."?Jason Diamond, Vol.1 Brooklyn ?The power of
this thing sneaks up on you?While Alan cools his heels, he bonds
with memorably drawn locals; has some adventures that illuminate
the tragicomedy that is globalism; and gets us meditating on what
appears to be the theme?: How can we all get over ourselves long
enough to really, truly notice other people?" ? Jeff Giles,
Entertainment Weekly ?Eerie, suspenseful and tightly controlled?
Exciting stuff."?Cynthia Macdonald, The Globe and Mail ?Alan feels
like Eggers's most fully-realized character to date ? A sad and
beautiful story."?John Freeman, The Boston Globe ?[A] supremely
readable parable of America in the global economy that is haunting,
beautifully shaped and sad ... With ferocious energy and
versatility, [Eggers] has been studying how the world is remaking
America ... Eggers has developed an exceptional gift for opening up
the lives of others so as to offer the story of globalism as it
develops and, simultaneously, to unfold a much more archetypal tale
of struggle and loneliness and drift."?Pico Iyer, The New York
Times Book Review "Hits you with prose as stark and luminous as its
Saudi Arabian setting?It should confirm Eggers's position among
America's leading contemporary writers."?Independent
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