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YOU
SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY
Dave Eggers
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For
those who found A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave
Eggers' previous meditation on loss, grief and metafiction -- on the
book table at the neighborhood Costco (go Dave!) or puzzled long and
loudly as it appeared without warning in their Christmas stockings,
it's time to be confused, and moved, again. You Shall Know Our
Veloocity takes Eggers' mind-tripping, heart-wrenching show on
the road in an attempt to travel the world in seven short days, yet
still manages to cover the same experimental and self-referential
territory with the same amount of remarkable humility as its predecessor
did. And this guy is no accidental tourist, either. His work with
cultural heavies such as They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Lethem
(the finest writer working today, bar none) under his independently-produced
McSweeney's imprint sets him apart from most Costco writers right
off the bat. The rest he makes up with sheer heart and cojones. |
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