The Circle
  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967553
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Circle

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26 Mar 2014
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6 Mar 2014
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The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world-even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967553
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney's also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible. He lives in Northern California with his family.

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The Parade
The Monk of Mohka
Heroes of the Frontier
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
A Hologram for the King
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Praise for The Circle

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...

Penguin

Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication'

Guardian

A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and entertaining read

Publisher's Weekly

Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk, spare and efficient ... it works

Time

The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast, witty and troubling

Washington Post

An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century

Vanity Fair

Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable

Observer

A gripping and highly unsettling read

Sunday Times

Unputdownable

Times

Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted

Daily Mail

Compelling and deeply contemporary

L.A Times

Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly characterize modern life

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