At least, he's a hero to me, bucking his publishers, firing his agents, demanding this and that as he travels around - I love the guy. On the other hand, Eggers is a hero to writers. All I know is, if a book of mine ever got a paperback sale of $1.4 million and a few million more for the movie rights, I wouldn't be bellyaching about the way the press covered it, as Eggers so famously does. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.I don't think it's possible for anyone who writes for a living to be objective about Dave Eggers' second book - and first novel - "You Shall Know Our Velocity." As a writer, I can't be objective about Eggers at all, given the staggering, and to me somewhat heartbreaking, success of his bestselling memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." There's no point in pretending that writers aren't envious.
Who is doing more, single-handedly and single-mindedly, for American writing?” - Time and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions. 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. “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 “The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel, an entertaining and imaginative tale.” - The Boston Globe achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry.” - Newsweek “Eggers ’s writing really takes off - his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations.” - Newsday "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." - San Francisco Chronicle "Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." - Salon "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 Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." - LA Weekly " You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. “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
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