A Hologram for the King: A Novel

A Hologram for the King: A Novel

by Dave Eggers

352 pages· 2013· ISBN 9780307947512
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A Hologram for the King 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. 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. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment — and a moving story of how we got here.

A National Book Award Finalist
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of the Best Books of the Year from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle

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    How does Alan Clay’s physical ailments—particularly his mysterious, throbbing cyst—serve as a metaphor for his emotional state and the broader anxieties of the American middle class?

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    Dave Eggers sets much of the novel in a vast, unfinished king’s city in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert. How does this surreal setting reflect Alan’s internal sense of displacement, uncertainty, and stalled ambition?

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    Alan’s relationship with his daughter, Kit, and his desire to pay for her college tuition drive much of his desperation. How do generational expectations and the pressure to provide shape Alan’s sense of self-worth?

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