Popular local writer Dave Eggers will be at Green Apple next Wednesday from 12noon until 1pm to sign copies of his new book, “A Hologram for the King”.
Eggers has an accomplished resume as a writer and supporter of the arts. And Green Apple is a huge fan of him and his work:
Who else has the range to help create MIGHT magazine, the Believer, and Lucky Peach, while writing unique novels like Zeitoun and his latest, A Hologram for the King? All while creating a non-profit with 8 locations that nurtures young writers. Oh, and theVoice of Witness series. And ScholarMatch. And so on.
A little bit about Eggers’ newest book, A Hologram for the King:
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.
In his latest novel, though, Eggers is quietly attempting something very ambitious. “A Hologram For the King” is a tale of emptiness, where the losses are of the more everyday kind — debts to pay, ex-wives to regret — even if the setting is exotic. In fact, if you describe the plot of this book — a salesman goes to Saudia Arabia, armed with a hologram, to pitch IT service to a king — it’ll probably provoke the kind of empathy shut-down that existed towards bankers . . . well, even now. – Boston Globe
If you can’t make it to the store for the signing, but would like an autographed copy of “A Hologram for the King”, call Green Apple at 387-2272. You can pre-purchase the book, and they’ll have it inscribed for you to pick up or be shipped to you after the event.
Sarah B.