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The best-selling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers announced himself as a literary force with this striking debut. It is the tale of two friends on a globe-trekking quest-at turns hilarious, frustrating, and heartbreaking-to give away money while grieving a painful loss. "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 ."-New York Times Book Review
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"Great book by an author I don't typically enjoy. Really, Hand made the book for me. Especially when his section comes in like three quarters of the way through and undermines Will's whole story. Pretty ballsy. Pretty Handsy. "
— David (5 out of 5 stars)
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One of the 2002 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction
You Shall Know Our Velocity Listener Reviews
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" Really disappointed in this one, having liked Dave Eggers' work before, but I just couldn't get into this one. "
— Colleen, 2/20/2014 -
" I couldn't even finish this book! "
— Dana, 2/15/2014 -
" My current (as in, over the last 5 years or so) favorite book! Love it! "
— Laurel, 2/12/2014 -
" This is the version with Hand's interlude. I'm really kind of super sad I didn't read the original, I might have liked it. I really want to like certain things about this book, some of the ideas and themes (even though Eggers hand is so fucking heavy with everything that it's a little insulting). Trying to describe the book I told someone "It's okay if you squint at it" which I think means that it's okay if you don't look at all of it and ignore parts of it. I really want to like this book, I really want to sympathize with a character that needs to run away when things get hard and with the feeling of needing to move, but I can't because the characters are poorly developed, and kind of dumb. This book makes me sigh. "
— Theresa, 2/7/2014 -
" This book is one of the most frustrating novels I have read. The characters have good back stories, the overall premise is great, and the opening paragraph is brilliant. That main issue I have is that both narrator and his right-hand-man are so bloody whiny. If they stopped looking at their bruised egos/navels I might be able to finish the book. Disappointing. "
— Geraint, 1/30/2014 -
" What a weird twist in the middle of this book... "
— Megan, 1/23/2014 -
" This is one of those books that fell into my life at the right time. I adored Will, wanted to throttle Hand (though his role as Will's foil really helped to define the main characters' personalities and perspectives much better than a straight narrative description would have) and wished Eggers would have spent just a little more time talking about their memories of Jack. The Jack flashbacks really gave this book a heart and soul that aren't always easy to inject into a novel. "
— Madeleine, 1/18/2014 -
" Great book, but the ending is a little strange. Eggers writing is brilliant, as always. "
— Brett, 1/13/2014 -
" Precocious and slightly pretentious. Exhausting and yet entertaining. This is Dave Eggers. "
— Elizabeth, 1/13/2014 -
" terrible novel. very disappointed after reading HW of SG. "
— Nattroop, 1/2/2014 -
" Not as good as Heartbreaking work but nonetheless a GREAT read "
— Carrie, 12/18/2013 -
" He's just the best author of our generation. "
— Glen, 11/10/2013 -
" I enjoyed reading this since it made me think of my two best friends and what it would be like to travel around the world in a mind boggling time. "
— Sean, 10/24/2013 -
" Dave Eggers, who is now one of my favorite authors, has yet to let me down. "
— Shanna, 10/13/2013 -
" was reading a lot of Bellow at the time I read this, and loved all the allusions. "
— Jon, 9/9/2013 -
" Again I say: "What the...?" "
— Lise, 3/15/2013 -
" The first book of Eggers' that I ever read, and my favorite. It's riddled with angst and great comedic timing, simultaneously heartbreaking and beautiful. "
— Kerri, 11/1/2012 -
" Didn't love it, but it had its moments. Seemed too distracted for my taste. "
— Claylajoie, 8/26/2012 -
" Am usually a fan of Eggers but have to admit I just wasn't able to warm to the 2 main characters in this book. "
— Laura, 7/3/2012 -
" i am of a fan of eggers for a heartbreaking work..., but this could not keep my attention. poor pacing. "
— Zoe, 6/12/2012 -
" curious road trip, curious memoir style narrative. "
— Non, 4/18/2012 -
" His writing style is superb. He has better books than this, but I loved his sense of humour and wit. I'd definitely recommend it to friends. "
— Katie, 6/29/2011 -
" So far I like it, but not as much as his others that I read (Heartbreaking Work, Zeitoun and What is the What). "
— Karen, 6/15/2011 -
" ...I don't think I got it. "
— Brooke, 6/2/2011 -
" Interesting book, not necessarily my favorite book by Eggers but certainly has some interesting points of view in regards to the oddity that is they 20 something male mind. "
— Joseph, 6/1/2011 -
" I heart Dave Eggers and this book didn't disappoint! "
— Samantha, 5/23/2011 -
" Fabulous. True Eggers voice, can't believe it took me so long to read it! "
— Mary, 4/27/2011 -
" I wish I had the balls (and the cash) to take a ridiculous trip like that "
— Alvin, 4/25/2011
About Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of children’s fiction, young adult fiction, science fiction, and more. His works have won the Newbery Medal, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, France’s Prix Médicis, Germany’s Albatross Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the American Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, and is cofounder of 826 National, a network of educational centers around the country offering free tutoring to kids of all backgrounds.
About Dion Graham
Dion Graham is an award-winning narrator named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Audie Award numerous times, as well as Earphones Awards, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, IBPA Ben Franklin Awards, and the ALA Odyssey Award. He was nominated in 2015 for a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Narration. He is also a critically acclaimed actor who has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. He is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, with an MFA degree in acting.