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You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave Eggers
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780241142288 |
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Awards
A New York Times Notable Book
A Village Voice, San Jose Mercury News, and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Village Voice, San Jose Mercury News, and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year
Powells.com Staff Pick
From Powells.com:
After the death of a close friend, Will and Hand, thoroughly American products of the late twentieth century, decide to travel around the world to distribute — as quickly and frenetically as possible — a whole lot of money. As they maniacally purge their grief, the plot twists from surreal to moving to desperate and back again. Eggers's trademark humor, pathos, and skill are deployed in carefully crafted (if sometimes chaotic) fiction; You Shall Know Our Velocity! is some of his strongest and most ambitious work. Tessa, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can?t really say why they?re doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it?s something to do with Jack?s death ? perhaps they?ll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it?s somewhere to get lost in...
Review:
"Endearing, funny...the prose is high on energy and Eggers's talents make it worth the trip" Guardian
Synopsis:
Will and Hand, two young Americans, decide to travel around the world handing over large amounts of money to those who need it. This trip will, they hope, be an answer to the overwhelming grief they feel after their friend's death. But, as they soon find out, nothing is quite so simple.
About the Author
Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's, a small group that sells taxidermy equipment and also produces books, a literary quarterly, and The Believer, a monthly review. McSweeney's, based in San Francisco, is also home to 826 Valencia, a non-profit educational center for Bay Area youth, which also sells pirate supplies. Eggers's first book was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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missnikkaphon, December 22, 2006 (view all comments by missnikkaphon)
This book threw me off with its first sentence, and proceeded almost to drag me through the main characters' adventure. Eggers' writing is outstanding and conveys Will's struggle beautifully; every feeling from triumph to desire for revenge is depicted more vividly than is realistic, with an urgency as great as that found in Will and Hand's trip. Read this book!
And, seriously, get it in hardcover. The first-page-front-cover is extremely nifty.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780241142288
- Author:
- Publisher:
- PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Location:
- N
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Publication Date:
- 20030227
- Binding:
- HARDCOVER
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 216 x 140 in.
