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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Fictional Work Fiction Allegories Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | A Andrae |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dave Eggers |
ISBN: | 9781936365746 193636574X 9781101973776 1101973773 9780307947512 0307947513 |
OCLC Number: | 793580554 |
Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, 2012 |
Description: | 312 pages ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Dave Eggers. |
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A lesser jewel in Eggers' crown
Dave Eggers is always highly readable, and rewards his readers with interesting settings, rich characterization, and generally compelling stories. The plot here is rather thin, and I suspect this would have worked better as a short story, or possibly a novella. A middle-aged salesman,...
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Dave Eggers is always highly readable, and rewards his readers with interesting settings, rich characterization, and generally compelling stories. The plot here is rather thin, and I suspect this would have worked better as a short story, or possibly a novella. A middle-aged salesman, on the brink of economic and personal failure, relies on an extremely tenuous business connection to try to land a contract with the Saudi Arabian king for an IT company--the maker of the holograms of the title. What ensues is largely theater of the absurd, with plenty of time for soul-searching and reflection. In the hands of a lesser writer, this would have been a difficult book to write. Eggers pulls it off, but just barely.
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