You Shall Know Our Velocity

Zusatztext “Headlong! heartsick and footsore.... Frisbee sentences that sail! spin! hover! circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace.... Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be! at the same time! authentic and sincere.” — The New York Times Book Review " You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book! Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." — LA Weekly "There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chinatown bounce! but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own." — Entertainment Weekly "Eggers is a wonderful writer! bold and inventive! with the technique of a magic realist." — Salon "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." — San Francisco Chronicle “Eggers ’s writing really takes off -- his forte is the messy! funny tirade! stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations.” — Newsday “Often rousing ... achieves a kind of anguished! profane poetry.” — Newsweek “The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel! an entertaining and imaginative tale.” — The Boston Globe “There are some wonderful set-pieces here! and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint.” — The Washington Post Book World “Powerful.... Eggers’s strengths as a writer are real: his funny pitch-perfect dialog; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will’s thoughts; ... and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions.... There is genius here.... Who is doing more! single-handedly and single-mindedly! for American writing?” — Time Informationen zum Autor DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them  The Circle, The Eyes and the Impossible, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What , and  The Museum of Rain . He is the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing and tutoring center which has inspired dozens of similar nonprofit organizations around the world, and the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publisher. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, and the American Book Award.  Klappentext In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.EVERYTHING WITHIN TAKS PLACE AFTER JACK DIED AND BEFORE MY MOM AND I DROWNED IN A BURNING FERRY IN THE COOL TANNIN-TINTED GUAVIARE RIVER, IN EAST-CENTRAL COLOMBIA, WITH FORTY-TWO LOCALS WE HADN'T YET MET. IT WAS A CLEAR AND EYEBLUE DAY, THAT DAY, AS WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THIS STORY, A FEW YEARS AGO IN JANUARY, ON CHICAGO'S NORTH SIDE, IN THE OPULENT SHADOW OF WRIGLEY AND WITH THE WIND COMING LOW AND SEARCHING OFF THE JAGGED HALF-FROZEN LAKE. I WAS INSIDE, VERY WARM, WALKING FROM DOOR TO DOOR. I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave. At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days. I was pacing and Hand knew I was pacing and knew what it meant. I paced like this when figuring or planning, and rolled my knuckles, and snapped my fingers softly and without rhythm, and walked from the western edge of the apartment, where I would lock and unlock the front door, and then east, to the back deck's glass sliding door, which I opene...

Product details

• Authors: Dave Eggers
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9781400033546
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-3354-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature