A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers (author)

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 05/09/2013

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A waiting game

Alan Clay, a former hot-shot manufacturer and salesman travels to Saudi Arabia to pitch for a million dollar IT project. Alan is almost broke and this is h... READ MORE

Claudia Sunderhauf

A Hologram for the King

I read this with a quiet urgency, accompanied by a sense of impending doom. It is a beautifully written novel wherein descriptions of Saudi Arabia are seam... READ MORE

Min Wells at Finchley Road O2

Synopsis

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 AHologram 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.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241145869
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 234g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm

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Contemporary

A modern day tale of one man's attempt to fight off the global recession's affect to his family. Although I found this interesting and well written I kept ... READ MORE

Joyce Butler

A comic tragedy

I came to this book with no knowledge of the author’s previous work but after reading this I’m keen to try the rest. His main character, Alan, is a middle-... READ MORE

Lou117

Eggers Back To His Best

For those of you not fully aware of Dave Eggers you are missing out on one of this generations greatest living writers, A Hologram For The King is bang on ... READ MORE

Randomharvest

Thought provoking

It took a while for this book to get going but once it did I couldn't put it down. An intelligently written and thought provoking novel. I would recommend ... READ MORE

Leanne710

man with a mid life crisis

This is the story of Alan who is suffering from a mid life crisis everything is going wrong, so he finds himself in Saudi Arabia trying to at least get his... READ MORE

Carol Edelston