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The Circle
The Circle is a fantastic and disturbing book. All through this book Eggers looks at out dependency on the internet, making it worryingly clear that we liv... READ MORE
the new nightmare
A frightening precursor to 1984, this Orwellian tale is both horrifying and mesmerising. Mae, after bagging a dream job at The Circle, becomes an ambassado... READ MORE
A witty and satirical take on social networking.
The Circle is the world’s biggest social network. Part Google, part Facebook and all encompassing, it’s a seemingly benevolent force that everybody is sign... READ MORE
The shape of things to come?
Young professional Mae Holland is ambitious, a bit naïve and thinks her dreams have come true when she lands a job with the Circle, a super-trendy social m... READ MORE
Synopsis
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime.
Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency.
Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega.
'Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted' -*Daily Mail*
'Prescient, important and enjoyable ...a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' - *Guardian*
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' - *Sunday Times*
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241146507
- Number of pages: 512
- Dimensions: 199 x 131 x 35 mm
- Weight: 412g
- Languages: English