A Hologram for the King

Name: A Hologram for the King
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781470322595

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/19/2012

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer:, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin; and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim on July 30, 2012

BLAH. I'm going to need the publishing industry to start putting on warning labels for Modern American Middle-Aged Upper-Middle-Class White Male Pathetic Protagonists, because I am all done with them. No more crazy bitch ex-wives, no more weird medical issues that strike at their sense of mortality,......more

Goodreads review by Lee on October 12, 2012

A perfectly enjoyable, effortlessly proceeding, airily formatted, short novel. It's not really 312 pages, more like 250 with lots of extraneous white space between frequently occurring sections. A tone so accessible it almost seemed like a YA version of some classic salesmanzy novel teleported to 20......more

Goodreads review by Meg on June 19, 2012

This is what I imagine Dave Eggers’ thought process was like in composing Hologram: “I want to write another novel. Haven’t done that in a little while. But I want it to be socially relevant, a commentary like Zeitoun. But it would be so obvious if my protagonist were another clear victim of global cat......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on September 14, 2012

Back in the early '70s a co-worker of mine shipped off to Saudi Arabia to take a job as a construction project manager for the giant company building King Khalid Military City. John was supporting three ex-wives, and he decided making triple his U.S. salary, with no way to spend it and living beyond......more

Goodreads review by Dan on October 10, 2012

UPDATE 10/10/12: NBA finalist?! Give me a break. -------- -Hey, Dave Eggers has a new book out and it looks wonderful. -What's it about? -Who cares, it's a lovely book to hold. And that's probably the most exceptional thing about the novel. McSweeney's has continued to impress me with the effort and car......more