![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you Dave Eggers for signing our books. As you can tell by this lengthy note, we are huge fans. He has won more writing awards than we have space to list. ![]() His non-profit 826 Valencia writing and tutoring center in San Francisco has been copied around the country, including in our area with the Desert Island Supply Company. ![]() His generosity here is merely an extension of this man's persona. At the end of his talk he asked the audience for the name of a cool bar close by - and then invited us all to the Garage Cafe and picked up the tab for the first round. A Hologram for the King moves forward-a momentum of melancholy and possibility, driven by the meditations and memories of its once-noble American salesman hero.' - The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Eggerss spare prose is a pleasure, and A Hologram for the King proves to be a deft blend of surreal adventure, absurd comedy and pointed observations. Published in June, 2012 by McSweeney’s Books, distributed by Publisher's Group West.ĭAVE EGGERS (pictured below from our Wall of Fame) made an indelible impression on Birmingham when we hosted him at the Alys Stephens Center on March 1, 2003. It is a new, unread first edition opened only for signing and comes with a certificate authenticating the signature. THIS COPY (shown below) was hand signed by Dave Eggers on the title page at his office. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING takes the reader to far-away Saudi Arabia to show how a man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's collapse. ![]()
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