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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.
Praise for A Hologram for the
King:
'Absorbing . . . modest and equally
satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting
tale about one man's travails that also provides a
bright, digital snapshot of our times' Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times
'A fascinating
novel' New Yorker
'A spare but moving elegy
for the American century' Publishers
Weekly
'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' Chicago
Tribune
'Completely engrossing'
Fortune
'Eggers can do fiction as well as he
likes' Los Angeles Times
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 Médicis. 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.
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