Dave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970. He is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle and Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? A Hologram for the King and The Circle are both currently in production for major film adaptations. Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family and his next novel is forthcoming in 2016.
One of our fiercest and most compelling writers
*Sunday Times*
Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and
somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original
*The New York Times*
Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his
generation
*Independent*
A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that
flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing
is compelling and the characterization astute
*Booklist*
Inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American
writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in.
Eggers pulls no punches
*Milwaukee Journal Sentinel*
A one-sitting read . . . insightful
*USA Today*
One of the country's leading literary eminences
*Washington Post*
Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by
him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine
concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with
society.
*HERALD*
His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets,
Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to
new lengths...compelling
*EVENING STANDARD*
But with each tightly controlled book, Eggers' fiction becomes more
prescient, moving and unsettling... Even if all generations are
lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask:
What now?
*INDEPENDENT*
The faint echo of Plato's dialogues . . . Raising questions about
the appropriate
relationship between authority and compassion.
*Kirkus*
An angry and astute investigation into the state of America ...
Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and
Zola.
*Guardian*
Eggers has a knack for potent images of frustration . . [He] has
produced something timely
*Chicago Tribune*
A major talent. His voice - loud, sardonic, compassionate, and
honest . . . Eggers has developed into a profoundly serious
novelist and nonfiction writer with a social and political
conscience.
*The Boston Globe*
Dave Eggers never writes the same book twice, and his latest may be
his most unusual to date . . . [A] fleet and forceful story by one
of our finest fiction writers . . .stark exchanges, with little
exposition ... propels the reader to the end.
*San Jose Mercury News*
Unmistakably the work of a singular talent. . . Even if all
generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary
novels which ask: What now?
*The Independent*
Fathers is a screaming, bleating cry for society to fix itself. It
is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away
as America plows on into the 21st century... compelling
*Chicago Daily Herald*
Another startling leap into new territory . . . Here is a tale as
tightly wound as an alarm clock. . . Eggers has always been as
elastic writer, but in Your Fathers he puts his language to the
ultimate test.
*Toronto Star*
This short, provocative novel feels a bit like Jack Bauer stepping
into Kierkegaard's collected works. . . ambitiously confronts a
grand history of philosophical angst . . . Swift and smart.
*San Francisco Chronicle*
Engaging . . . You know what Eggers wants to say, he says it
quickly, and he says it with a respectably righteous fury. And,
ultimately, he says it with a compassion that's always been present
in his work . . . Fascinating.
*The Washington Post*
Within 212 pages, Eggers displays a delicate, haunting, sometimes
dire picture of the world. It may not be a comfortable read, but
it's an interesting take on what we believe to be true and what we
hope to be true.
*Alibi.com*
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