The Circle
Dave Eggers
The Circle
Dave Eggers
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Description
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency.
Publisher's description. Fast, thrilling and compulsively addictive, The Circle is Dave Eggers' bestselling novel about our obsession with the internet and where it may lead. When Mae Holland lands her dream job at the world's most powerful internet company, she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of The Circle...
A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and entertaining read
Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk, spare and efficient ... it works
Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication'
The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast, witty and troubling
An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century
A gripping and highly unsettling read
Unputdownable
Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable
Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted
Compelling and deeply contemporary
Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly characterize modern life
Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun. He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world. His work has been translated into forty-two languages.
Publisher's description. Fast, thrilling and compulsively addictive, The Circle is Dave Eggers' bestselling novel about our obsession with the internet and where it may lead. When Mae Holland lands her dream job at the world's most powerful internet company, she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of The Circle...
A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and entertaining read
Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk, spare and efficient ... it works
Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication'
The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast, witty and troubling
An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century
A gripping and highly unsettling read
Unputdownable
Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable
Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted
Compelling and deeply contemporary
Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly characterize modern life
Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun. He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world. His work has been translated into forty-two languages.