A Hologram for the King

Eggers, Dave

ISBN 10: 193636574X / ISBN 13: 9781936365746

Published by McSweeney's Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Hologram for the King
• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193636574X
• ISBN 13: 9781936365746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1758011731.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 13199510
• Signed: 9/16/2025 8:35:31 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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  • 9781936365746
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Synopsis

In 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 A Hologram for the King, 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.

About the Author

Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medici. In 2002, with Ninive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities around the country have since opened sister 826 centers. Eggers lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.