{"product_id":"a-hologram-for-the-king-a-novel","title":"A Hologram for the King: a novel","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\u003cp\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A fascinating novel' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A spare but moving elegy for the American century' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Completely engrossing' \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\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 Médicis.\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\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dave-eggers-books\"\u003eDave Eggers\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780241145869\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47909727371441,"sku":"SB-0241145864-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0241145864.jpg?v=1789163381","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-hologram-for-the-king-a-novel","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}