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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
by Dave Eggers
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781400033546 |
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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
Synopses & Reviews
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
Publisher Comments:
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
Review:
"[A] headlong, heartsick and footsore first novel....[N]obody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere....[A] lesser effort [than Heartbreaking], but entirely honorable and ultimately persuasive." John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review
Review:
"There are some wonderful set-pieces here, and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint." The Washington Post Book World
Review:
"[E]ntertaining and profoundly original....Eggers makes a strong argument for the arbitrary quality of wealth, and how difficult it is to redistribute it in a way that is not equally arbitrary. And though he coats this meditation on generosity in his helium-inflected humor, there is a self-reflexive sadness, too." John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle
Review:
"MTV's Jackass, as scripted by Samuel Beckett....The novel's grinding, at times monotonous rock and roll of plane trips and hotel rooms and (often hilarious) bickering...is punctuated by surprising, elegant lyrics....[A] messy, funny book. As always with Eggers, not least interesting is figuring out just who the joke is on." John Homans, New York Magazine
Review:
"Will and Hand?s rapport is so engaging, and it?s so good to hear Eggers' voice, that Velocity cruises along nicely for quite a while. But soon, for every funny-weird philanthropic adventure...there are tens of pages of deadening, familiar stuff....In its final pages, Velocity achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry. It?s not heartbreaking. It?s not staggering. But if Eggers is a question, the answer is still yes." Jeff Giles, Newsweek
Review:
"[Will and Hand] treat their life like a madcap movie (Paul Bowles meets Evel Knievel!), but reading Eggers's listless prose feels more like sitting through some unhinged friend's blurry vacation photos....Eggers's novel limps along, strangely static." Joy Press, The Village Voice
Review:
"[T]hough Y.S.K.O.V. coasts only on charm for scores of pages at a stretch, at its best, it simply moves and is moving....[F]or every dead passage there's a sterling set piece, an energetic consideration of grief or joy....Despite its emotional depth and inventive structure, [the novel] does not break the heart and seems unlikely to stagger. (Grade: B)" Troy Patterson, Entertainment Weekly
Review:
"Eggers' strengths as a writer are real....At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have genuine existential pathos; at their worst they're a little jejune, a pair of Holden Caulfields railing at the phonies....[T]here's genius here, and if it occasionally staggers, the book deserves our forgiveness and our respect..." Lev Grossman, Time
Review:
"Is the book any good? Yes. It's terrific....[T]he delivery is deadpan and heartfelt, the adventures absurdist and valiant....Eggers reaches us with his postcards from a sharp, high edge, and we are grateful." Celia McGee, New York Daily News
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. This is his first novel.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781400033546
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Grief
- Subject:
- Psychological fiction
- Subject:
- Americans
- Subject:
- Humorous fiction
- Subject:
- Philanthropists
- Subject:
- Male friendship
- Subject:
- Loss
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st paperback ed.
- Edition Description:
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- Series Volume:
- 107-16
- Publication Date:
- July 1, 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 8.04x5.22x.83 in. .84 lbs.
