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Hologram For The King

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 daughters 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 economys 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. "A master of the surprising metaphor Eggers great skill is in tracking the exuberant chaos of thought with all its sudden poignancies and unexpected
joys". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Among the most influential writers in the English language". ("GQ"). "Eggers can write like an angel". ("Tablet"). 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 Frances Prix Medici. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeneys 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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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 daughters college tuition & 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 & his splintering family together in the face of the global economys gale-force winds. This taut richly layered & elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment
- & a moving story of how we got here. "A master of the surprising metaphor Eggers great skill is in tracking the exuberant chaos of thought with all its sudden poignancies & unexpected joys". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Among the most influential writers in the English language". ("GQ"). " Eggers can write like an angel". (" Tablet"). 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 & Zeitoun". " Zeitoun" was the winner of the American Book Award & the " Dayton Literary Peace Prize & " What is the What" was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award & won Frances Prix Medici. Eggers is the founder & editor of Mc Sweeneys an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago he lives in Northern California with his wife & two children."

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King - The figure head of a monarch
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Children - A young life form within the early stages of physical development,
Family - A group of people that live together made up from parents and children.
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