{"product_id":"a-hologram-for-the-king","title":"Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King [2013] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist\u003ci\u003e A Hologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eA Hologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A master of the surprising metaphor, Eggers's great skill is in tracking the exuberant chaos of thought, with all its sudden poignancies and unexpected joys'  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Among the most influential writers in the English language'  \u003ci\u003eGQ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Eggers can write like an angel'  \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDave Eggers is the author of six previous books: \u003ci\u003eA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow We Are Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZeitoun. Zeitoun\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and \u003ci\u003eWhat is the What\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's \u003ci\u003ePrix Medici\u003c\/i\u003e. Eggers is the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eggers, Dave","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47314631688531,"sku":"XV80241145852","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":49193402892627,"sku":"9780241145852","price":27.13,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/eggers-dave-dave-eggers-a-hologram-for-the-king-2013-hardback-58212779131219.jpg?v=1743697894","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/a-hologram-for-the-king","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}