New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalistA Hologram for the King.In a risingSaudi Arabiancity, far from weary, recession-scarredAmerica, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, & finally do something great. InA Hologram for the King,Dave Eggerstakes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself & his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, & elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - & a moving story of how we got here.Praise for A Hologram for the King:"Absorbing ...modest & equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times". (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times)."A fascinating novel". (New Yorker)."A spare but moving elegy for the American century". (Publishers Weekly)."Eggersunderstands the pressures of American downward-mobility, & in the protagonist of his novel,Alan Clay, has created anEveryman, a post-modernWilly Loman...The novel operates on a grand & global scale, but it also is intimate". (Chicago Tribune)."Completely engrossing".(Fortune)."Eggerscan do fiction as well as he likes". (Los Angeles Times).°°°Dave Eggersis the author of 6 previous books: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What, The Wild Things & Zeitoun.Zeitounwas the winner of the American Book Award & the Dayton Literary Peace Prize &What is the Whatwas a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award & won France's Prix Medicis.Eggersis the founder & editor ofMcSweeney's, an independent publishing house based inSan Francisco. A native ofChicago, he lives inNorthern Californiawith his wife & two children