{"product_id":"hologram-for-the-king-pb-w3","title":"Dave Eggers: HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING W3 [2013] paperback","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating novel'  \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A spare but moving elegy for the American century'  \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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'  \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Completely engrossing'  \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes'  \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Medicis.\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":"New","offer_id":44236508299554,"sku":"9780241145869","price":11.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":49333390901587,"sku":"XG80241145869","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49214448140627,"sku":"XV80241145869","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/eggers-dave-dave-eggers-hologram-for-the-king-w3-2013-paperback-58281500836179.jpg?v=1727531412","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/hologram-for-the-king-pb-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}