7/2/2023 0 Comments A hologram for the king novel![]() ![]() ![]() Currently-lives in San Francisco, Californiaĭave Eggers is the author of five books, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, and A Hologram for the King.Listen to our Movies Meet Book Club Podcast as Hollister and O'Toole discuss the movie and book. ![]() See the 2015 film version with Tom Hanks. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment-and a moving story of how we got here. 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. 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. ![]()
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