A Hologram for the King

<p><b>New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist<i> A Hologram for the King.</i></b><br><br>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 <i>A Hologram for the King</i>, 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.<br><br>Praise for<i> A</i> <i>Hologram for the King</i>: <br><br>'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, <i>New York Times</i><br><br>'A fascinating novel' <i>New Yorker</i><br><br>'A spare but moving elegy for the American century' <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>'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' <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>'Completely engrossing' <i>Fortune</i><br><br>'Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes' <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i>, <i>How We Are Hungry</i>, <i>You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What</i>, <i>The Wild Things</i> and <i>Zeitoun. Zeitoun</i> was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and <i>What is the What</i> was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's <i>Prix Médicis.</i> Eggers is the founder and editor of <i>McSweeney's</i>, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.</p> <p><b>New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist<i> A Hologram for the King.</i></b><br><br>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 <i>A Hologram for the King</i>, 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.<br><br>Praise for<i> A</i> <i>Hologram for the King</i>: <br><br>'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, <i>New York Times</i><br><br>'A fascinating novel' <i>New Yorker</i><br><br>'A spare but moving elegy for the American century' <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>'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' <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>'Completely engrossing' <i>Fortune</i><br><br>'Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes' <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br>Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i>, <i>How We Are Hungry</i>, <i>You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What</i>, <i>The Wild Things</i> and <i>Zeitoun. Zeitoun</i> was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and <i>What is the What</i> was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's <i>Prix Médicis.</i> Eggers is the founder and editor of <i>McSweeney's</i>, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.</p>